Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -
November 23rd: Daly entered Pearl Harbor late morning. Fueling on arrival. Left Pearl Harbor mid-afternoon, destination Mare Island, San Francisco. Temperatures 70s, light to moderate breezes.
November 24th: Daly en route to San Francisco. Temperatures 60s-70s, moderate breezes.
November 25th: At sea all day. Temperatures 60s, light to moderate breezes.
November 26th: At sea all day. Temperatures 60s, light to moderate breezes.
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The first bomber raid (using B-29s) on Tokyo occurs on the 24th.
Strasbourg, France and nearby towns were liberated during this time. A nearby concentration camp was also liberated.
Soviet forces completed the capture of the Baltic states from the Germans.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 582-585.
- 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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