Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
April 5th: In port morning and evening, with training exercises during middle of the day. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
April 6th: In port all day.
April 7th: Out to sea in the morning; conducting various exercises for the entire day; radar, gunnery, damage control, torpedo attack, night battle, and smoke generation. Still out of port at midnight. Temperatures 70s, light winds most of day but near gale force (Beaufort scale 7) winds overnight.
April 8th: Continued exercises until mid-morning, then entered port. Fueling in early afternoon. Left port in the evening for exercised during the night. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
Routine days at Milne Bay; training intensifying while waiting for next action.
-------------------------
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, and begin to enter Romania. Fighting begins in Crimea.
-------------------------
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 467-468.
- 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
No comments:
Post a Comment