Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean - Aleutian Islands, Alaska
October 24th: At sea at 9 AM for the rest of the day. At noon, near Unalaska Island. Temperatures low-50s, light winds.
October 25th: At sea until 3 PM. At noon, near Unalaska Island. Temperatures high-40s, light winds.
October 26th: Moored all day. Temperatures high-40s, light winds.
October 27th: Moored all day. Temperatures low-40s, light winds. Money received onboard to pay the crew.
These appear to be routine patrols near Allied bases in the Aleutians.
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In the Solomons, landings on Mono Island (Treasury Islands) and on Choiseul Island commenced on the 27th. Resistance was not heavy during the invasion and Mono Island was fully captured by November 7th. The Japanese believed this to be a prelude to attacking their base in the Shortland Islands, but the Navy would leapfrog directly to Bougainville.
Plans for Operation Galvanic (invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands) continued in the Central Pacific. It would be a few weeks before the operation was ready.
Finschafen, on the eastern edge of the Huon Peninsula in New Guinea, was captured by Allied troops. This was one of the last maneuvers before the Allies began the advance across the north shore of New Guinea toward the Philippines.
Soviet forces continued their advance across Ukraine, taking the city of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro).
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 399-400.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 92-113.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 279-296.
- Events of October, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, October, 1943
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