Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
June 24th: Another day in port. Temperatures 80s, some light breezes.
June 25th: In port all day, changed berths, fueling in the afternoon. Temperatures 80s, some light breezes.
June 26th: Put out to sea in the early morning. Gunnery and ship handling drills before noon. Rendezvous with task forces 74 and 75, assuming position in destroyer screen. Radar and tracking exercises in the afternoon. Night battle exercises in the late evening. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
June 27th: Simulated battle exercises in early morning. Returned to Seeadler Harbor for the rest of the day. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds.
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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. Cherbourg, France was taken by the Allies.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 500-502.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 123-133, 311-334.
- 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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