USS Welborn C. Wood
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USS Welborn C. Wood was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She served with the United States Coast Guard as USCGD Wood. She was later transferred to the Royal Nav
USCGD Welborn C. Wood at anchor c 1932
HMS Chesterfield, 15 November 1942
Neutrality Patrol
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On September 3, 1939, the British and French declarations of war on Germany initiated the Battle of the Atlantic. The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations established a combined air and ship p
USS Welborn C. Wood
…triggering treaty obligations for France and the UK and hence a casus belli for the Second World War. President Franklin D. Roosevelt swiftly ordered a Neutrality Patrol to sea, ostensibly to safeguard American coastlines. The Atlantic Squadron found itself hard pressed to meet the initial demands of the patrol and…
U.S. Navy Vought SBU-1 dive bombers of scouting squadron VS-42 flying the Neutrality Patrol in 1940