Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
August 31st:. At sea all day en route to Seeadler Harbor, Admiralty Islands. Fleet exercises during the day. Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate breezes.
September 1st: Arrived Seeadler Harbor early afternoon and moored for the rest of the day. Temperatures 80s, light winds.
September 2nd: In port all day. Temperatures 80s, light breezes.
September 3rd: Another day in port at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 80s-90s, light to
moderate breezes.
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Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima are attacked several times by the Navy. This is to try to neutralize the islands, but also to divert attention from the locations of the next US advances.
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.
Brussels and Dieppe, France were liberated. The Soviet Army occupied Bucharest and Ploesti in Romania.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 532-534.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 1-13.
- Events of August, 1944
- Events of September, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, August 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, September 1944
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