Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - New York
July 16th: At sea all day. At noon, about 100 miles east of Atlantic City, NJ.
July 17th: At sea all day. At noon, about 50 miles southwest of Nantucket.
July 18th: Returned to port at 9 AM. Fueling in morning.
July 19th: In port all day,
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Daly would soon depart New York and transit through the Panama Canal to the Pacific, initially arriving at San Diego. Daly would be in the screen of the new Essex-class carrier Lexington (CV-16), named after the carrier earlier lost during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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The Allied Invasion of Sicily continued with Allied advances inland on the southern part of the island.
The Battle of Kursk had ended without resolution, but for the rest of the war, German forces would no longer be on the offensive. The German high command had begun diverting troops to Italy to oppose the Allied invasion there.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 361-363.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 22-54.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 160-191.
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