Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
August 19th:. Remaining in port at Sydney, Australia. Temperatures 50s-60s, light winds.
August 20th: Another day in port. Temperatures 50s-60s, light breezes.
August 21st: All day in port at Sydney. Temperatures 50s-60s, light winds.
August 22nd: Remaining in port. Temperatures 50s-60s, moderate breezes.
Daly sailors are enjoying liberty in port at Sydney. Temperatures are cool as this is still winter in Australia.
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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.
The Liberation of Paris was begun on the 19th when the Free French forces began an uprising in the city.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 527-528.
- 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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