Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
May 23rd: On patrol all day in the Wakde area. Sank a floating mine in the morning. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
May 24th:
Again on patrol all day in the Wakde area. Laying smoke screen in the afternoon. Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
May 25th: Released from patrol in the early morning and returning to the Humboldt Bay area. Anchored in Humboldt Bay for the rest of the day. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
May 26th: In port until late evening and then underway again with a cruiser-destroyer force. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
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the Central Pacific, the various task forces for the invasion of the Marianas were now in motion, moving toward the mid-month invasion of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 486-488.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 96-102, 157-169.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 317-327.
- Events of May, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, May 1944
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