Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
April 17th: Anchored all day; temperatures 80s, light winds.
April 18th: At sea after 1 PM. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
April 19th: At sea all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. At noon, in Bismarck Sea, south of Manus Island. Moving toward a rendezvous with Task Force 77, to join in the invasion of Hollandia, New Guinea, with landings also at Aitape, New Guinea..
April 20th: At sea all day; temperatures 70s-80s, light winds. At noon, northwest of Manus Island. Daly in Task Force 75; sighted other task forces near Manus Island.
The invasion at Aitape and Hollandia is scheduled for the next two days and several task forces are involved, including Navy carriers and a large number of troop transports. This invasion is leapfrogging over several Japanese garrisons further east on the northern New Guinea coast.
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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 As with most of the Pacific islands, maps were outdated and locations of reef and other obstacles had to be defined before invading.
Fighting continues in Italy at Anzio and at Monte Cassino.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 471-473.
- 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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