Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Seeadler Harbor
October 6th:. Once again in port all day, waiting to start for Leyte Gulf. Some torpedo detonators received in the morning.
Temperatures 80s, light winds.
October 7th: Anchored in port all day. Carrier Midway arrived in the morning. Temperatures 80s, light to moderate breezes.
October 8th: Another uneventful day in port Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate breezes.
October 9th: Another quiet day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 80s-90s, light breezes.
Four large carrier task forces, acting in concert, are approaching Okinawa and nearby islands in the Ryukyu Island chain.
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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.-------------------------
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 550-552.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 54-116.
- Events of October, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, October 1944
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