Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
February 13th: In port all day at Sydney, NSW, Australia. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
February 14th: In port all day at Sydney, NSW, Australia. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
February 15th: In port all day at Sydney, NSW, Australia. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds.
February 16th: In port all day at Sydney, NSW, Australia. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
Daly will remain in Sydney for about two weeks. The ship is moored at Woolloomooloo, very close to downtown Sydney. Liberty was no doubt welcome after almost a year mostly at sea; from Boston, to the Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii, New Britain and New Guinea.
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US forces continue to occupy islands in the Marshalls, and aerial attacks on Eniwetok Atoll continued in anticipation of landings on the 17th.
The invasion of the
Green Islands northwest of Bougainville began on the 15th. Raids on the Japanese base at Rabaul were increasing. Fighting continued on Bougainville.
Fighting continues in Italy at the Anzio beachhead and at Monte Cassino. On the 15th, the Allies bombed the Abbey of Monte Cassino, believing it was being used by the Germans.
Soviet troops begin the attack on the Narva Isthmus in northeast Estonia.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 442-443.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 187-288.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 400-414.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 275-278.
- Events of February, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, February 1944
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