November 18, 1944 - Saturday - 80 years ago today

Status - John Skinner - USS Daly: 

USS Daly (DD-519) - Seeadler Harbor

November 15th: Arrived at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands in the evening and anchored for the rest of the day.  Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate breezes.

November 16th:  In port at Majuro Atoll.  Fueling in the afternoon.  Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate breezes.

November 17th:  Left Majuro at 2 PM, destination Pearl Harbor.  Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate breezes.

November 18th:  Continuing to Pearl Harbor.  Time change at 1 PM.  Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate to strong breezes all day. 

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Allied troops advanced to the Siegfried Line in western Germany.  The Allies also entered Metz, France.

Japanese carrier Shinyo was torpedoed and sunk.

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More Information:

• Official Navy Chronology, pp. 577-580.
• Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 356-357.
  
• Events of November, 1944
  
• Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November 1944

 

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