Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
February 25th:
At sea all day after 7 AM; temperatures 70s-80s, light to moderate winds. Day consumed in various exercises with other destroyers.
February 26th: Anchored all day after 9 AM; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. Returned to Milne Bay, New Guinea on completion of crew training exercises. Fueling mid-day.
February 27th: Anchored all day until 5 PM; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. Heading for Buna Roads, New Guinea.
February 28th: At sea most of the day, moored for about 3 hours in the morning. Temperatures 80s, light winds. Daly is with a cruiser and destroyer force for the invasion of the Admiralty Islands.
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Fighting continues in Italy at the Anzio beachhead and at Monte Cassino.Soviet troops continue advances in Russia and Ukraine.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 449-452.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 294-332.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 400-422.
- 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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