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Originally Posted by jester
It is pretty simple to find out what amphibious ships would be around. Simply look up what vessels were in the Atlantic and Med they would of been on rotation so you can pick and choose which vessels. There are several types of vessel as well which adds to the variety.
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Unfortunately it's not that simple. "Our" world has everyone at war for a number of VERY destructive years. The rotation you mention does not take this into account.
Law had actually mentioned something about this way back when I first posted my assessement of the offensive roughly twelve months ago. According to him, the Tarawa wasn't even in the European theatre even though the Nautical book places it there.
The John Handcock IRL was decommissioned in October 2000 after having been deployed to the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and then Arabian gulf. By this reasoning, it should probably have been serving in support of the units in Iran rather than as flaskship for TF 34....
Good idea though, just a few too many problems to work... :S
With the vast majority of military shipping on the bottom of the ocean (or blocking ports - sunk before they could get out to sea), it's probable that the bulk of the US 2nd MarDiv's nautical transportation was civilian in nature. With the limited availablity of purpose built heavy landing vessels, any operation would need to be carefully planned and executed and also need one hell of a lot of luck!