Best source of the USN, pre-war is the "14th Edition of The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet"...
Second Fleet is the traditional "home" or training fleet. 2nd Fleet has the NATO Strike Force mission as well as being the Navy's operational requirements of the Caribbean and Central America as well as the ASW mission in the Atlantic.
Carrier Group 6 is based at Mayport, Florida (CV-59 and CV-60). Also based at Mayport is Cruiser-Destroyer Group 12 which consists of 4 DDG, 16 FFG, 7 FF, 3 MSO and 1 AD.
Based at Key West, Florida are 6 PHMs of PHM Squadron 2.
The senior command for the Caribbean is Task Force 28 (Caribbean Contingency Force).
The Naval Reserve also operates FFG-20 and FFG-21 out of Mayport, Florida and FFG-24 out of Galveston, Texas.
The only ships that regularly operate in the Gulf of Mexico are the Naval Reserve ships and the hydrofoils of PHM-2, the other ships tend to rotate between assignments to 2nd Fleet and forward deployments to 6th Fleet.
The U.S. Coast Guard covers the area with the 7th Coast Guard District (Miami, FL) and the 8th Coast Guard District (New Orleans, LA). Coast Guard vessels and aircraft are split between the Atlantic Area and the Pacific Area. I'm still researching their assignments for the pre-war area.
For the most part the Navy operates light forces (with the occasional cruiser or SSN deployed) in the Caribbean.
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