Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
January 20th: Anchored all day at Buna Roads, New Guinea; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
January 21st: Anchored until 9 PM, then underway, escorting landing ships. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
January 22nd: At sea all day. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds. At noon, 20 mile south of Finschafen, New Guinea. Completed escort duty, returned to Buna, New Guinea.
January 23rd: Anchored until 7 PM, then underway, escorting transports to Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
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Preparations for the invasion of the Marshall Islands continue Attacks continue on Rabaul; these slowly degrade the port's defenses.
Landings are made at the Anzio beachhead in an attempt to flank the German troops fighting at Monte Cassino; despite an unopposed landing, Allied forces move forward too slowly and become bogged down in the marshes of the area.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 433-434.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 187-215.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 366-399.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 275-278.
- Events of January, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, January 1944
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