Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) -
November 27th: At sea all day, proceeding to San Francisco. Temperatures 50s-60s, light to moderate breezes.
November 28th: At sea all day. Temperatures 50s-60s, light to moderate breezes.
November 29th: Entered port at San Francisco just after noon. Temperatures 40s-50s, light to moderate breezes.
November 30th: At San Francisco. Temperatures 40s, light breezes.
Daly has arrived at San Francisco for an overhaul that would last several weeks. Many of the crew were released to other assignments, and those that were remaining got a very welcome 20 days of liberty.
John did not get any shore leave, as he was already en route to his new assignment, on board the new attack transport USS Saint Croix (APA-231), which was currently in Vancouver, Washington.
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Peleliu Island was secured by US forces on the 27th, more than two months after the invasion of the island. On the 29th, Japanese carrier Shinano was sunk by a US submarine.
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More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 585-586.
- Leyte, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 356-370.
- Events of November, 1944
- Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives, USS Daly, DD-519, November 1944
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