Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -New Guinea
September 4th:. In port all day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 80s-90s, moderate breezes.
September 5th: Another quiet day in port. Temperatures 80s-90s, moderate breezes.
September 6th: In port all day again. More ships have been entering the harbor the last few days, including the battleship New Jersey. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
September 7th: Another day in port. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
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The Navy bombarded the Palau islands and Yap, which are southwest of the Marianas, and on the way to the Philippines. There was little Japanese resistance. The Japanese were reserving their remaining forces for contesting the Philippines.
A Japanese cargo ship carrying US prisoners was sunk by a US submarine. Of the 750 US prisoners, 688 died as a result of the sinking.
The Soviet Army continued its advance in Romania, and declared war on Bulgaria. Ypres, in Belgium, was liberated by Polish Allied troops.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 534-535.
- 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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