Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Pearl Harbor
December 3rd: Underway 8 AM to 2 PM, otherwise moored. Safety drills while at sea. Temperatures 70s, light to moderate winds.
December 4th: Underway 8 AM to 2 PM, otherwise moored. Anti-submarine drills at sea. Temperatures 70s, light winds.
December 5th: At sea from 8 AM for the rest of the day. Torpedo and radar drills. Temperatures 70s, light winds.
December 6th: Returned to port at 11 AM, moored rest of day. Gunnery and tracking exercises. Temperatures 70s, light to moderate winds.
Daly will be at Pearl Harbor until December 9th before sailing for the New Guinea/Solomons theater.
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Planning
was already in progress for the next advance in the Central Pacific
into the Marshall Islands, with Kwajalein Island as the focus. Carriers attack Kwajalein on the 4th, sinking some support ships and damaging two Japanese cruisers.
In
the Solomons, fighting continues on Bougainville Island. A Navy destroyer force (including John's old ship, the Fullam) fought of an air attack from the Japanese. On land, the perimeter was expanding, but it was slow going.
General Eisenhower is named commander for the Allied Expeditionary Force for the invasion of Europe. In Italy, fighting continued with an Allied attack along the Moro River. Soviet troops continued to advance in Belorussia (Belarus).
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 415-416.
- 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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