US NAVY
Atlantic
Squadron Neutrality Patrol assets deployed this date: destroyers Davis (DD-395),
Jouett (DD-396), Benham(DD-397) and Ellet (DD-398) operate
between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Placentia Bay, Newfoundland (Grand Banks
Patrol); destroyers Hamilton (DD-141) and Leary (DD-158) operate
off Georges Shoals; Goff (DD 247) and Hopkins(DD-249) and PBY-2s
(VP 54), supported by minesweeper [small seaplane tender] Owl (AM-2)
operate out of Narragansett Bay; destroyers Decatur (DD-341), Barry (DD-248),
Reuben James (DD-245) and auxiliary [high speed transport] Manley (AG-28),
with shore-based VP 52 and VP 53 (P2Y-2s) operate out of Chesapeake Bay; destroyers
Babbitt (DD-128) and Claxton (DD-140) patrol the Florida Straits;
heavy cruisers San Francisco (CA-38) and Tuscaloosa (CA-37),
destroyers Truxtun (DD-229), Simpson (DD-221), Broome (DD-220)
and Borie (DD-215) and patrol squadrons VP 33 (PBY-3s) and VP 51
(PBY-1s), supported by small seaplane tenders Lapwing (AVP-1), Thrush(AVP-3)
and Gannet (AVP-8) watch the Caribbean and the Atlantic side of the
Lesser Antilles; heavy cruisers Quincy(CA-39) and Vincennes (CA-44)
operate off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; held in reserve in Hampton Roads is a
striking force consisting of carrier Ranger (CV-4) (her embarked air
group consisting of squadrons VB 4, VF 4, VS 41and VS 42) and battleships New
York (BB-34) and Texas (BB-35). Arkansas (BB-33) and gunnery
training ship (ex-»battleship) Wyoming (AG-17) are carrying out training
cruise for USNR midshipmen. The destroyers find the going rough on the Grand
Banks; they will be replaced by 327-foot Coast Guard cutters that will be administratively
assigned to Destroyer Division 18.
U.S.
freighter City of Joliet is detained by French authorities and her cargo
examined (see 5 October).
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