Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
July 18th:. In port all day. Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
July 19th: Another day in port. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
July 20th: Still another day in port. A few ships coming and going. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
July 21st: Fueling in morning, then anchored again inside the port. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
Daly has been in port at Seeadler Harbor for about 2 weeks.
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Fighting continues on Biak, Noemfoor, and other locations across northern New Guinea.
In the Marianas, the invasion of Guam begins on the 21st.
On July 20, there was an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Poland. Hitler is injured but not killed, and meets Mussolini later in the day.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 513-515.
- 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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