Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
June 28th: Stayed in port all day. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
June 28th: Left port for exercises in the afternoon. Executed anti-aircraft firing drills. Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
June 30th: Daly leaving Seeadler Harbor with task force to return to Biak Island. Doing several training drills while in transit. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
July 1st: Proceeding to Biak Island area. Temperatures 80s, 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. Caen, France was defended from German counterattack.
Soviet armies scored victories in Belarus.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 502-506.
- 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
- Events of July, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, June 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, July 1944
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