Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
August 15th:. Moored at Sydney, Australia all day. Temperatures 50s, light winds.
August 16th: All day in port at Sydney. Temperatures 50s, light winds.
August 17th: Another day in port. Temperatures 60s, light winds.
August 18th: Remained in port. Temperatures 50s, light breezes.
Daly sailors are enjoying liberty in port at 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. Biak Island fell to the Allies on the 17th.
Landings begin in southern France by an Allied invasion force.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 525-527.
- 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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