Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pearl Harbor
November 25th: In port all day.
November 26th: In Port all day. Numerous men transferred out for reassignment to new destroyers or training. 24 new sailors reported for duty on Daly.
November 27th: In port all day. Numerous men transferred out for reassignment to new destroyers or training.
November 28th: In port all day.
Daly will be at Pearl Harbor for just over two weeks before sailing for the New Guinea/Solomons theater. Mild temperatures and calm winds prevailed for these 4 days.
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Japanese submarine I-19, author of the devastating attack in September of 1942 that sank the US carrier Wasp and destroyer O'Brien, was sunk by depth charges from destroyer USS Radford near Makin Island in the Gilberts. Japanese planes made several attacks on the US ships in the Gilberts; no US ships were damaged. Most US ships would soon leave the area, the target islands having been secured.
In
the Solomons, fighting continues on Bougainville Island. On the night of November 25th, at the north end of Bougainville, the naval Battle of Cape St. George was fought. The Navy sank 3 Japanese destroyers and had no losses.
President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill, having finished the conference in Cairo, arrived in Tehran on the 28th to meet with Stalin. Discussions included the plans for a second front in Western Europe, and the plans for Eastern Europe after the war.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 411-413.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 120-186.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 350-360.
- Events of November, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November, 1943
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