sentences:  As tensions mounted in Europe and East Asia in the late 1930s, the U.S. Navy expanded to meet the emergency, especially after World War II began in Europe following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.The Navy needed auxiliary vessels of various types, and cast a wide net in looking for them.One of the ships identified for transfer to the Navy was "Guide", and, on 27 June 1941, she was transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Navy.