NEUTRALITY PATROL

The German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 began hostilities in Europe and President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately declared the United States’ neutrality.
The 'Neutrality Patrol', organized in September 1939 as a response to the war in Europe, was ordered to track and report the movements of any warlike operations of belligerents in the waters of the Western Hemisphere. To augment the fleet units already engaged in the Neutrality Patrol which President Roosevelt had placed around the eastern seaboard and Gulf ports, the Navy recommissioned 77 destroyers and light minelayers which had lain in reserve at either Philadelphia or San Diego.

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★ Strict Neutrality - Britain and France at War with Germany: September 1939 - May 1940

★ The Neutrality Patrol: To Keep Us Out of World War II? Capt. William E. Scarborough, USN (Ret.)