Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
July 22nd:. Passed out of the harbor mid-day for AA firing exercises. Returned to harbor for the rest of the day on completion.
July 23rd: In port at anchor all day.
July 24th: Left port early to conduct fleet exercises. Damage control, battle casualties, engine stress, radar, smoke making, and torpedo run tests are completed. Returned to port and refueled in the afternoon.
July 25th: In port all day; boiler fire started in engine room, had to stop boiler operation resulting in total power loss to ship. Boiler stop extinguished fire, started different boiler to restore power.
Daly has been in port at Seeadler Harbor for more than 2 weeks.
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Fighting continues on Biak, Noemfoor, and other locations across northern New Guinea. President Roosevelt is sailing for Hawaii for a conference with Nimitz and MacArthur about future war strategy. MacArthur will be forced to defend his plan to move next to the Philippines.
In the Marianas, the invasion of Tinian begins on the 24th, and fighting continues on Guam.
The Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek, Poland is liberated by Soviet forces, and the world begins to learn of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 515-516.
- 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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