Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
June 12th:
Arrived Seeadler Harbor at 4 PM. Anchored rest of day, drew fuel in the late evening. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
June 13th: Anchored all day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
June 14th: Anchored all day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds.
June 15th: At anchor all day again. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds.
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In the Central Pacific, carrier aircraft attack at several of the Mariana Islands on the 12th, with Navy bombardments following up on the 13th. Landings begin at Saipan on the 15th. A Japanese convoy approaching the area has several ships sunk by US carrier aircraft.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 496-498.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 123-133, 174-196.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 328-340.
- Events of June, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, June 1944
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