Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Woendi Anchorage
September 20th:. Moored all day at Woendi Anchorage. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
September 21st: Another quiet day in port. Temperatures 80s, moderate breezes.
September 22nd: Moored all day, no major activity. Temperatures 80s,
calm/light winds.
September 23rd: Again in port all day.
Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
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Large carrier raids on Manila and Subic Bay, Philippines, destroy large numbers of Japanese cargo ships as well as several other ships, including one destroyer.
The invasion of Leyte Island in the Philippines is now scheduled for October 20.
Battleship West Virginia reaches Pearl Harbor, completing the re-floating and refurbishing of the sunken or damaged battleships salvaged from the Pearl Harbor raid.
Allies take Boulougne, France and now move toward Calais. Soviet forces take Talinn, Estonia, and other Soviet forces enter Hungary. Allies make advances in Italy; liberated, San Marino declares war on Germany.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 543-544.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 41-49.
- Events of September, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, September 1944
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