Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Seeadler Harbor
October 10th:. Anchored all day at Seeadler Harbor
Temperatures 80s, light winds.
October 11th: Fleet underway toward the Philippines. Daly in anti-submarine screen. Temperatures 70s-80s, light winds.
October 12th: Underway all day and reached Hollandia in the afternoon and anchored. Radar exercises in the morning while at sea. Temperatures 70s-80s, light to moderate winds.
October 13th: Left port in the early afternoon; patrolling with fleet rest of day. Temperatures 70s-80s, light breezes.
Carrier strikes on the 10th at Okinawa and nearby result in the sinking of a number of cargo and support ships. Similar attacks are done at Formosa on the 12th with more japanese ships sunk. Carrier Franklin is damaged by a kamikaze but remains on duty, and heavy cruiser Canberra is torpedoed and put under tow as the task forces retire. Light cruiser Houston also needed to be towed.
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Fighting continues on all major fronts in Europe; France, Northern Italy, Romania, Poland and Finland. The Germans are stymied or pushed back in each area. Athens was liberated on the 13th.-------------------------
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 552-554.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 86-100.
- Events of October, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, October 1944
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