Originally Posted by Grimmy

The only lesson we needed to learn from Vietnam and have failed to apply is that you can not keep a war effort going in the face of open treason and fully unconstrained enemy sympathizers perverting the homefront.

Our oath says death to all enemy, foreign and domestic.

I am with you on that!

I believe American soldiers are dying in Iraq for being just too-good to their enemies.

Another question

Was there any US Aircraft carrier in the Atlantic AOR during the liberation of Europe?

Iirc there were some escort carriers. Those were former merchant ships converted into light capacity flat tops. Their primary purpose was to provide some protection to merchant convoys.

I do not recall if the UK had any carriers in the Atlantic area.

Originally Posted by Grimmy

Iirc there were some escort carriers. Those were former merchant ships converted into light capacity flat tops. Their primary purpose was to provide some protection to merchant convoys.

I do not recall if the UK had any carriers in the Atlantic area.

Were they all in Pacific or Med then?

Not a clue. Sounds like a good research topic for you to spend some time on.

Originally Posted by phoenix80

Another question

Was there any US Aircraft carrier in the Atlantic AOR during the liberation of Europe?

Why don't you do some research on your own?

Try these sites for a start:
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsCarriers.htm
http://www.historyofwaronline.com/WW2-3.html\
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/carriers/
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/carriers/cv7.htm
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/carriers/cv4.htm

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Wheezcellbert

Marines were under Admiral Nimitz who controlled the Pacific Theater and Nimitz being the man he is (great man) didn't want to send the Marines over to Europe because he knew they could do there job but that he needed them all.

General MacArthur (Army) was Supreme Allied Commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater.
General MacArthur was also put in charge of the Invasion of Japan (not needed) and took the formal Japanese Surrender in World War II.

Originally Posted by phoenix80

Another question

Was there any US Aircraft carrier in the Atlantic AOR during the liberation of Europe?

Carriers were needed in the Pacific, Carriers were hard to come by in the early days of the War, and the Atlantic Ocean is not as big as the Pacific Ocean.
America had something better than an Aircraft Carrier in Europe, America had England to launch heavy Bombers from, all day long. The Smaller Escort Carrier was used in the Atlantic, one such Ship being the USS Guadalcanal, serving Anti-submarine Duty in the Atlantic.

Lets get it straight. There were no USMC combat formations in the ETO. Reasons being...Plan Orange a pre-war plan to deal with Japans expansion in the Pacific was a Navy/Marine plan,and FDR, Marshall etc placed more value on the ETO early in the war. The Army was able to bring more man-power to bear in 41-42 as the Marine Corps did not have Division level formations until 41.

There were Marines in the ETO. Ships detachment's on battleships and cruisers,MSG dets and several hundred assigned to the OSS Jedburg TEAMS.

Where the Gun crews on Merchant ships Marines or Navy? I know they were Marines on the Capital ships (Carriers, Cruisers, Battleships), etc. But on Merchant ships I think they were Navy but I cannot remember.