Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
April 13th: Anchored all day; temperatures 70s-90s, light winds.
April 14th: Anchored all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
April 15th: Underway 5 AM to 3 PM, moved to Buna, New Guinea with other destroyers and cruisers. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
April 16th: Anchored nearly all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. Fueling late morning, received ammunition in the afternoon.
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In the Central Pacific, the main focus is aerial photography of the islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian in the Marianas. As with most of the Pacific islands, maps were outdated and locations of reef and other obstacles had to be defined before invading.
In New Guinea,
preparations are almost complete for the invasion on April 22nd at
Hollandia (now Jayapura). Navy fleet carriers will be present for a few
days to cover the landings.
Fighting continues in Italy at Anzio and at Monte Cassino.
Soviet forces take Yalta, Crimea.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 470-47.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 58-63, 157-169.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 281-293.
- Events of April, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, April 1944
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