Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
January 28th:
Anchored all day. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
January 29th: Anchored all day. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
January 30th: Anchored all day. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
January 31st: Anchored until 8 PM, then underway. Temperatures 80s, light winds. Daly with other destroyers is escorting a new group of transports.
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In the final days of January, US carrier air forces destroy Japanese air power in the Marshall Islands, and on the 30th, bombardment of Kwajalein Atoll and Majuro Island begin, followed on the 31st by Marine and Army landings on the islands.Fighting continues in Italy at the Anzio beachhead and at Monte Cassino. Forces from the Anzio beachhead break through the Gustav Line.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 434-437.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 187-240.
- 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 January, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, January 1944
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