Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
March 16th:
.Underway at 1 PM for the rest of the day. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds. Destination is Langenak Bay, New Guinea, near Finschafen.
March 17th: Moored in middle of the day, otherwise at sea. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds. Reached Finschafen, fueling in afternoon. Resumed movement up the New Guinea coast in the evening.
March 18th: At sea all day. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds. Reached area of Wewak, New Guinea in the late evening.
March 19th: At sea all day. Temperatures 80s, light winds. Daly begins bombardment of land targets in Wewak area early morning; Daly fires torpedo at surface targets and notes explosion, and is credited with sinking a Japanese submarine chaser.
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Final plans and initial orders are now in place for the operations against Hollandia (Jayapura area) in New Guinea, and for the invasion of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific. The Hollandia operation is set for April, and the Marianas invasion for June.
Fighting continues
in Papua, New Britain, and the northern part of the Solomon Islands.
In the Central Pacific, Chuuk Lagoon (Truk) remains a focus for the
naval task forces.
Fighting continues in Italy at Anzio and at Monte Cassino.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 459-461.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 58-63, 157.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 281-293.
- Events of March, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, March 1944
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