Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pearl Harbor until 12/9, then in Pacific Ocean, destination New Guinea
December 7th: Moored all day, shifted berths, temperatures 70s, light breezes.
December 8th: Moored all day, temperatures 70s, light breezes. Several men reported aboard for duty. Fueling and ammunition loading in afternoon. Changed berths again, a few men transferred ashore for other assignments.
December 9th: Finished loading ammunition. Leaving port at 11 AM, destination New Guinea. Temperatures 70s, light to moderate breezes. Steaming with Hutchins, Beale, and Ammen. Changed time zone.
December 10th: At sea all day. Lat/Long positions not recorded. Temperatures 70s-80s, light to moderate breezes. Initial destination Funafuti (Tuvalu).
Daly has begun sailing for the New
Guinea/Solomons theater.
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US Navy forces raid the island of Nauru in the South Pacific.
In
the Solomons, fighting continues on Bougainville Island. A US airstrip became operational on the island on the 10th.
Fighting intensified in Italy and continued on the eastern front in Belorussia (Belarus). President Roosevelt completed the Cairo conference and began his return to the US on battleship Iowa.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, p. 417.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 187-203.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 350-360.
- Events of December, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, December 1943
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