There are a number of reasons that the US Marines weren't used in the D-Day landings.
There's the fact that even in the Pacific, the largest landings were also done by the Army, the US Marine units were used for the smaller islands.
The USN was the junior partner in the D-Day landings, US warships only made up 16% of the total number of warships present.
US Marine units were light on armour compared with similar Army units, not helpful when facing panzers.
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.
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.
Another question
Was there any US Aircraft carrier in the Atlantic AOR during the liberation of Europe?
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.
Another question
Was there any US Aircraft carrier in the Atlantic AOR during the liberation of Europe?
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