Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
June 20th:
Another day in port at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
June 21st: In port for ninth day in a row. Swapped torpedo warheads with another US destroyer. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
June 22nd: In port all day. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
June 23rd: 11th consecutive day in port. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
The crew is no doubt grateful for the rest but is probably looking forward to the next mission.
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On the 20th, US submarines sink 2 Japanese carriers, and carrier aircraft sink another and damage 3 more. Other ships are damaged as well, and dozens more Japanese airplanes are shot down. These actions become known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fighting continued on Saipan, and Biak in New Guinea.
In
Italy, the Trasimene Line becomes the focus of the fighting. Heavy fighting continues in Normandy
also. Supply there was set back because of a major storm that damaged
the Mulberry harbors and other equipment. The Soviet Union began major offensives in Belarus.
The G. I. Bill was signed into law on the 22nd.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 500-502.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 123-133, 299-311.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 328-343.
- Events of June, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, June 1944
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