Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean - Aleutian Islands, Alaska
September 18th: In port all day. Temperature low 50s, light winds.
September 19th: In port all day, Temperatures in the 40s, gale force winds most of the day.
September 20th: In port all day. Temperatures high 40s, breezy. Fueling in the afternoon.
September 21st: In port all day. Temperatures high 40s, gale force winds late.
The Allied Invasion of Italy continued as Allied troops moved out of the Salerno beachhead and toward Naples.
Fighting also continued in New Guinea as Allied troops advanced north of Lae.on the Huon Peninsula
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 385-387.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 94-96.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 233-239.
- Events of September, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, September, 1943
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