Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
August 23rd:. In port at Sydney for the 10th straight day. Temperatures 60s, light to moderate winds.
August 24th: Another day in port. Temperatures 50s-60s, mild winds.
August 25th: A number of men were absent over leave during the day. Temperatures 50s, light winds.
August 26th: In the afternoon, Daly put out to sea for Seeadler Harbor, New Guinea. Temperatures 50s-60s, light winds.
Daly has spent 12 days in port at Sydney. Now will begin the final push for the recapture of the Philippines.
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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 completed with the German surrender of the city on August 25th. General DeGaulle leads a liberation parade in Paris the next day.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 528-531.
- 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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