Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean
November 21st: At sea all day, at noon, approximately 1000 miles NNW of Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands. Temperatures mid-50s, light breezes.
November 22nd: At sea all day, at noon, about 450 miles NNW of Pearl Harbor. Temperatures 60s-70s, light breezes.
November 23rd: Arrived Pearl Harbor at 11 AM; moored rest of day. Temperatures 70s-80s, very light breezes.
November 24th: In port all day, temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
Daly will be at Pearl Harbor for just over two weeks before sailing for the New Guinea/Solomons theater.
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In
the Solomons, fighting continues on Bougainville Island.
In the Gilberts, the islands Tarawa and Makin were secured by the 24th, with heavy casualties. These islands are very near the equator, so the air was hot and muggy; the islands are volcanic, so the ground was very hot as well. The fighting was hard and at close quarters. Many who fought there have said that this was as close to Hell as they ever hoped to come. 980 Marines were killed in taking the islands.
On the 24th, escort carrier Liscome Bay was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-175. The torpedo ignited the stored bombs onboard, and the ship soon sank after a gigantic explosion and fire. Most of the crew was killed in the explosions and fire, and debris rained down on nearby ships.
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met with Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo, to discuss the Pacific War. The leaders were on the way to the Tehran Conference with Stalin.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 409-411 .
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 120-186.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 330-349.
- Events of November, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November, 1943
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