Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
September 8th:. Still in port all day Fueling in the afternoon. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
September 9th: Another day in port. Received ammunition in the afternoon. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
September 10th: At sea in the early morning en route to Hollandia, New Guinea. Remained at sea all day, radar exercises in the afternoon. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
September 11th: Reached Humboldt Bay anchorage, Hollandia. Fueling in morning. Late evening, left port en route to support the invasion of Morotai Island. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
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Navy conducted raids on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Several Japanese cargo vessels were sunk.
Roosevelt and Churchill met in Quebec to discuss the British Navy's role in the Pacific War.
Luxembourg was liberated, and the Allies reached Zeebrugge, Belgium. near the border with the Netherlands. The Allies in some places had reached the German border.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 535-537.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 1-13.
- Events of September, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, September 1944
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