Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Woendi Anchorage
September 24th:. Moored all day at Woendi Anchorage. Temperatures 70s-90s, light breezes.
September 25th: In port all day. Fueling in the afternoon. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
September 26th: Remaining in port all day again. Temperatures 80s,
calm/light winds.
September 27th: Underway with Task Forces 74 and 75 in early morning. Exercises during the day and night battle exercises late evening.
Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
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Large
carrier raids continue in the Philippines, with many more Japanese ships sunk. The Ulithi Atoll was occupied by the navy and will become an important advance base for the rest of the war.
The invasion of Leyte Island in the Philippines is now scheduled for October 20.
Operation Market Garden ends in failure as the Allies do not get across the Rhine River into Germany. Advances continue in Italy and Soviet troops enter Albania.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 544-547.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 49-54.
- Events of September, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, September 1944
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