Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - En route to Pearl Harbor
November 19th: Daly en route from Majuro Atoll to Pearl Harbor. Temperatures 70s, strong breezes.
November 20th: Continuing to Pearl Harbor. Temperatures 70s, strong breezes.
November 21st: Continuing to Pearl Harbor. Temperatures 70s, strong breezes.
November 22nd: Still at sea, moving toward Pearl Harbor. Temperatures 70s-80s, moderate to strong breezes all day.
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The Nazi command center known as the Wolf's Lair on the eastern front must be abandoned as Soviet forces approach. The Allies capture Gielenkirchen on the western front.
US submarine Sealion sinks Japanese battleship Kongo and destroyer Urwakaze with a single spread of torpedoes in the South China Sea.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 580-582.
- 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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