Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pacific Ocean, destination New Guinea
December 11th: At sea all day, temperatures 80s, light winds. At noon, approximately 1120 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor.
December 12th: At sea all day, temperatures 80s, light winds. Near equator at noon, about 500 miles north of Funafuti; crossed equator in the afternoon.
December 13th: Reached Funafuti (now Tuvalu) at 4 PM; changed to time zone GMT +11. In port the rest of the day. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate winds.
December 14th: At sea at 7 AM. At noon, about 130 mile SE of Funafuti. Temperatures 80s. light winds. Next destination is Espiritu Santo (now Vanuatu),
Daly now sailing for the New
Guinea/Solomons theater.
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On December 5th, Kwajalein Atoll is designated as the main target for the invasion of the Marshall Islands. Preparations for the invasion will take several weeks and the invasion will happen at the end of January.
In the Solomons, fighting continues on Bougainville Island.
Soviet forces captured Cherkasy, Ukraine, which is about 90 miles SE of Kiev.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 417-418.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 187-206.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 350-360.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 1-275.
- Events of December, 1943
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, December 1943
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