Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Seeadler Harbor
November 7th: In port all day at Seeadler Harbor. Temperatures 70s-80s,
light to moderate breezes.
November 8th: In port all day, fueling in the afternoon. Transferred torpedoes to a destroyer tender. Temperatures 70s-80s, light to moderate breezes.
November 9th: Left the harbor late morning with carrier division, destination Pearl Harbor. Time change in the evening. Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate breezes.
November 10th: Continuing with the carrier force en route to Pearl Harbor. Temperatures 70s-80s, light to moderate breezes.
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President Roosevelt was elected for the fourth time on the 7th, defeating Thomas Dewey 432 electoral votes to 99.
Back in Seeadler Harbor, the ammunition ship Mount Hood suffered a cataclysmic explosion. Only a shore party from the ship survived. A destroyer and two escort carriers were damaged, and many support ships and smaller craft were sunk or damaged beyond repair. Only small pieces of Mount Hood were ever found.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 572-574.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 346-354.
- Events of November, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November 1944
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