Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
July 6th:. Returned to Seeadler Harbor with Task Force 75. Fueling in the evening after arrival. Temperatures 80s, light
breezes.
July 7th: In port all day. Several men leave ship for transfer to New Construction division. Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
July 8th: In port all day, Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
July 9th: Left harbor for various drills including an anti-submarine exercise, then returned to port. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
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Saipan, in the Marianas, was taken on the 9th,
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 508-510.
- New Guinea and the Marianas, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 133-140, 335-338.
- War at the End of the World, James P. Duffy, pp, 328-370.
- Events of July, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, July 1944
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