Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
February 17th: In port all day at Sydney, NSW, Australia. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
February 18th: In port all day at Sydney, NSW, Australia. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. Fueling in the morning.
February 19th: In port morning at Sydney, NSW, Australia, underway at 11 AM. At noon, just north of Sydney. Temperatures 70s, light winds.
February 20th: At sea all day; at noon, east of Sunshine Coast, Australia. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
Daly is returning to the Buna, New Guinea area.
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Navy task forces attack the Japanese base at Truk (now Chuuk) Lagoon in the Caroline Islands (Operation Hailstone). The raid is a success, as the Japanese lose over 40 ships and 270 aircraft. The invasion of Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands begins on the 17th.
The
Green Islands northwest of Bougainville are occupied.
Fighting continues in Italy at the Anzio beachhead and at Monte Cassino.
Soviet troops begin the attack on the Narva Isthmus in northeast Estonia. German troops in Ukraine escape from a pocket near Cherkasy in which they are surrounded, but must leave behind all their heavy equipment.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 446-449.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 294-332.
- 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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