Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean - Aleutian Islands, Alaska
August 13th: In port at Adak Harbor all day. Temperature in the 50s, light winds.
August 14th: In port at Adak Harbor all day
August 15th: At sea at 7 AM. At noon, just north of Kanaga Island, Aleutians. Winds picking up in the afternoon.
August 16th: At sea all day.
The invasion of Kiska Island began on the 15th with landings and bombardments by Naval ships. All troops were soon ashore and advancing; they advanced all day on the 16th without encountering enemy troops. Adak, as previously noted, was already abandoned by the Japanese forces.
In the Solomons, also on August 15th, US forces invaded the island of Vella Lavella, which was to the northwest of the current Japanese positions on New Georgia. This was the first notable instance of "island-hopping", as it later came to be known,
The Allied bombing of Italy was resumed with attacks on several cities. Rome was declared an open city to protect it from destruction. Mussolini had already been deposed in late July
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 373-374.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 22-63.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 212-233.
- Events of August, 1943
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