Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
July 10th:. Moored all day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds.
July 11th: Moored all day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
July 12th: Again remained all day at Seeadler Harbor with Task Forces 73, 74, and 75. Temperatures 80s-90s, light winds.
July 13th: Again in port all day. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
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Fighting continues on Biak, Noemfoor, and other locations across northern New Guinea.
In the Marianas, Saipan had been taken, and preparations were under way for the attacks on Tinian and Guam.
The battle for Caen, France continues at this time. Parts of the city are occupied by Allied forces.
Vilnius, Lithuania fell to Soviet forces on the 13th.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 510-511.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 133-140, 335-338.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 328-372.
- Events of July, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, July 1944
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