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The USS Greer (DD145) tangled with Germany's U-652 off the coast of Iceland on 4 September 1941. It evaded two torpedoes and dropped depth charges in return. No one was hit or harmed in the "incident" but it generally considered the first firefight between the US and Germany of what would become WWII. One week later President Roosevelt ordered all US Naval Vessels to attack any ship that that attacked or threatened a US ship or any foreign vessel under escort.

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