Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
July 2nd:. Passed Biak Island enroute to support invasion of Noemfoor Island, west of Biak. Bombardment in the morning in support of landings, patrol starting late morning for the rest of the day. Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
July 3rd: Returning from Noemfoor Island area to Hollandia. Arrived morning, in port the rest of the day. Received ammunition in the afternoon. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
July 4th: In port all day. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
July 5th: Left in the morning to return to Seeadler Harbor, New Guinea. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
Noemfoor Island was the next jump after Biak, about 50 miles further west. Advances were done quickly as General MacArthur was intent on getting to the Philippines as soon as possible.
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Fighting continued on Saipan, and Biak in New Guinea.
In Italy, Allied forces take Siena.
Soviet armies captured Minsk, Belarus.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 506-508.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 123-133, 311-335.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 328-370.
- Events of July, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, July 1944
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