Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
March 28th: Entered dry dock for repairs;; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
March 29th: Remained in dry dock all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
March 30th: Remained in dry dock all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
March 31st: Remained in dry dock all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
In dry dock due to collision with dock damaging starboard side.
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Eight Navy aircraft carriers carry out an attack on the Palau Islands, sinking and damaging many auxiliary vessels, including three tankers. Mines were laid in the islands by carrier aircraft as well.Fighting continues in Italy at Anzio and at Monte Cassino. Soviet forces continue advancing in Ukraine.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 464-466.
- 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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