Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
April 1st: In dry dock all day for repairs. Temperatures 70s, light winds.
April 2nd: In dry dock all day for repairs. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
April 3rd: Out of dry dock in the morning, gunnery practice in the afternoon. Returned to anchorage in the evening. Temperatures 70s-90s, light winds.
April 4th: Anti-submarine exercises in the afternoon, returned to anchorage in the evening. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
Routine days at Milne Bay waiting for next action.
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Small raids and occupation of islands in the Marshalls continue, as does planning for the invasion of the Marianas, and the attack on Hollandia (Jayapura) in New Guinea.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. 466-467.
- 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 April, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, April 1944
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