As President Roosevelt returned to Washington on the Presidential yacht Potomac from a weekend on Chesapeake Bay, two news dispatches told the U.S. how nearly two other U.S. ships came to involvement in the war:
> Crew members of the 125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General...
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