Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Seeadler Harbor
October 2nd:. Remaining in port at Seeadler Harbor.
Temperatures 80s, moderate breezes.
October 3rd: Left port during the day for anti-submarine patrol and gunnery exercises before returning to harbor. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
October 4th: Again put out to sea for gunnery, making smoke, and torpedo exercises before returning to port. Temperatures 80s, moderate breezes.
October 5th: Stayed in port all day and received fuel late morning, Temperatures 80s-90s, reached 100 mid-day, light breezes.
Fleet is exercising for the upcoming invasion of the Philippines. Many ships are arriving at the harbor, including transports.
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The battle for Aachen, Germany began on the Western Front. Soviet troops begin an offensive to isolate German forces in the Baltic countries.
Morotai was secured on the 4th but occasional skirmishes continued.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 548-550.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 85-116.
- Events of October, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, October 1944
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