Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean - Aleutian Islands, Alaska
November 1st: Moored all day. Temperatures low-40s, light winds.
November 2nd: Moored all day. Temperatures high 30s and low-40s, light winds.
November 3rd: Moored all day. Temperatures high 30s, light winds.
November 4th: At sea at 6 PM for the rest of the day. Temperatures high 30s and low-40s, light winds.
These appear to be routine patrols near Allied bases in the Aleutians.
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In
the Solomons, landings were conducted November 1st on
Bougainville Island at Empress Augusta Bay and Cape Torokina on the
southwest side of the island. John's previous ship, the Fullam, supported the landings.
A Japanese cruiser force was sent to contest the landings and a night battle was fought with US forces. By this time, the Navy was able to use radar much more effectively that it had earlier in the war. As a result, the Japanese lost a light cruiser and suffered heavy damage to two heavy cruisers, while the Navy had ships damaged but not sunk.
Plans for Operation Galvanic (invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands) continued in the Central Pacific. It would be another week or so before the operation was ready.
Soviet
forces continued their advance across Ukraine, and launched a large attack on Kiev, compelling the German army to begin evacuating the city.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 401-403.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 92-113.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 296-322.
- Events of November, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November, 1943
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