Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
July 14th:. In port all day at Seeadler Harbor.
July 15th: In port all day.
July 16th: In port all day again.
July 17th: Another day in port.
Daly has been in port at Seeadler Harbor for about 10 days.
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Fighting continues on Biak, Noemfoor, and other locations across northern New Guinea.
In the Marianas, underwater demolition teams are destroying obstacles blocking the beaches at Guam.
The battle for Caen, France continues at this time. Parts of the city are occupied by Allied forces.
Pinsk, Belarus fell to Soviet forces on the 13th.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 511-513.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 133-140, 338-357.
- 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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