sentences:  Soon after the opening of hostilities between the United States and Japan, "Teal" moved south to the California coast.In January 1942, the small seaplane tender was assigned to the Pacific Southern Naval Coastal Frontier, the short-lived forerunner of the Western Sea Frontier, but she remained administratively under the commander of the Scouting Force aircraft.She tended the planes of PatWing 8 until March.