Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
March 24th:
.Anchored most of the day; temperatures 70s-80, breezy mid-day. Gunnery drills late morning.
March 25th: Anchored all day, temperatures 70s-80, mild winds.
March 26th: Anchored all day, temperatures 70s-80, mild winds.
March 27th: Anchored all day, temperatures 70s-80, mild winds.
Routine days at anchor in Milne Bay, waiting for next assignment.
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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, in New Britain, and in the northern part of the Solomon Islands. Further landings in the Bismarcks continue the surrounding of Rabaul. Minor islands in the Marshalls are being occupied also.
Fighting continues in Italy at Anzio and at Monte Cassino.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 463-464.
- 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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