Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean - Aleutian Islands, Alaska
November 5th: At sea all day, at noon, about 200 miles west of Dutch Harbor. Temperatures low-40s, light to moderate winds.
November 6th: At sea until 3 PM, at noon, near Adak Island. Temperatures low-40s, strong gale force winds in the morning, lighter winds in the afternoon.
November 7th: Moored all day. Temperatures low-40s, strong winds in morning, light winds afternoon.
November 8th: Moored all day. Temperatures low-40s, very light winds.
These appear to be routine patrols near Allied bases in the Aleutians.
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In
the Solomons, as the fighting on Bougainville continued, the Navy learned that a large heavy cruiser force had been sent by the Japanese to Rabaul. No US cruisers or battleships were in the area to confront this force should it sail south toward the Solomons. Admiral Halsey ordered a carrier force (Saratoga and new light carrier Princeton) to conduct an air raid at Rabaul. The raid sank no ships but did damage to several of the cruisers, which was enough to prevent any advance of the cruiser force.
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 captured Kiev, Ukraine and continued west.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 403-405.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 92-113.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 323-330.
- Events of November, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November, 1943
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