Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
March 4th: .Underway all day; temperatures 80s, light winds. At noon, north of Admiralty Islands. Daly proceeds with other ships to bombard Hauwei Island at the entrance to Seeadler Harbor. Daly fires 5-inch guns on shore batteries at about 5 PM. Patrolling rest of day.
March 5th: Moored in the morning, at sea the rest of the day; temperatures 80s, light winds. At noon, north of Admiralty Islands. Patrolling north of Admiralty Islands between the islands and the equator.
March 6th: At sea all day; temperatures 80s, light winds. At noon, north of Admiralty Islands. Continuing patrol in assigned area.
March 7th: At sea all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. At noon, north of Admiralty Islands. Patrolling in morning; bombardment of Ndrilo Island late afternoon. Resumed patrol the rest of the day.
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Allied forces in New Guinea have completed the capture of the Huon Peninsula. Preparations begin for advances on Madang and Wewak areas
Fighting continues in Italy at Anzio and at Monte Cassino.
Soviet troops continue advances in Russia and Ukraine.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 455-456.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 1-58.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 444-448.
- 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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