Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
August 27th:. Force of cruisers and destroyers en route to New Guinea; first stop is at Milne Bay. Gunnery exercises in the afternoon. Temperatures 60s-70s, moderate breezes.
August 28th: Proceeding to Milne Bay; training exercises during the day. Temperatures 70s, light to moderate breezes.
August 29th: Continuing to Milne Bay; exercises during the day. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
August 30th: Reached Milne Bay in the morning and took on fuel. Received men on board for transfer to Seeadler Harbor for other duty. Captain's mast assigned punishment for about 50 men who had gone absent over leave (AOL) during the stay in port at Sydney; some of the men who were AOL longer were deferred to deck court.
Left in the afternoon to continue to Seeadler Harbor in the Admiralty Islands. Temperatures 70s-80s, light to moderate breezes.
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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.
General DeGaulle and the Free French forces took control in Paris. Soviet troops continue to advance in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Romania.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 531-532.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 1-13.
- Events of August, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, August 1944
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