Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean - Aleutian Islands, Alaska
October 20th: Deck log does not indicate location for this day. Temperatures low 50s, light winds.
October 21st: Anchored after 8 AM. Position not in log. Temperatures mid 40s, light winds.
October 22nd: Moored all day, mid-40s, light winds.
October 23rd: Underway 9 AM to 3 PM, moored otherwise. At noon, near Unalaska Island, Aleutians.
These appear to be routine patrols near Allied bases in the Aleutians.
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The Allied Invasion of Italy became stalled approaching the Gustav Line.
A large bomber attack was conducted by the RAF on the German city of Kassel and caused a firestorm that in some ways was worse than the more well-known fire bombing of Hamburg a few months before.
Soviet troops took Melitopol, Ukraine, in a continuation of an offensive designed to cut off and isolate a German force in Crimea.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 398-399.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 92-113.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 279-293.
- Events of October, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, October, 1943
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