Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Morotai Island, Woendi Island
September 16th:. Patrolling all day at Morotai Island until late evening, then moving to Woendi Island, New Guinea. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
September 17th: Proceeding to the Woendi/Biak area. Investigated radar contacts during the day. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
September 18th: Moored at Woendi and received fuel in late morning. Changed berth and moored rest of day. Temperatures 80s,
light to moderate breezes.
September 19th: In port all day.
Temperatures 80s, light winds.
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Battles on Morotai and Peleliu are just beginning after landings are completed.
The invasion of Leyte Island in the Philippines is now scheduled for October 20.
Soviet troops occupy Sofia, Bulgaria. Operation Market Garden began in the Netherlands. San Marino, in Italy, was occupied by the Allies.
Hitler approved plans for the Ardennes Offensive, which would later become the Battle of the Bulge.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 541-543.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 13-41.
- Events of September, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, September 1944
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