Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
August 11th:. At sea all day en route to Sydney, Australia, Temperatures 70s, light winds.
August 12th: At sea all day. Temperatures 60s, winds up to 20 knots in the evening.
August 13th: Arrived Sydney mid-morning, tied up at Wooloomooloo dock. Moored for the rest of the day. Temperatures 60s, winds dying down through the day, light breezes in the evening..
August 14th: Moored all day. Temperatures 50s-60s, light winds.
Daly has been at sea for some time now, and participated in a number of invasions in the New Guinea theater. The crew is no doubt looking forward to some shore leave while in Sydney.
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The island of Morotai is scheduled for invasion on September 15th. Morotai is about 500 miles WNW of Biak Island. It is about half way to the Philippines.
Intense fighting continues around the French city of Falaise in Normandy. In Italy, the allies have control of Florence.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 523-525.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 1-12.
- Events of August, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, August 1944
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