WHY didnt the usa use aircraft carriers in europe in ww2?

Question

why only the pacific

Answer 1

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.
In 1937, The Naval Air Branch, later known as the Fleet Air Arm, was returned eventually to Admiralty control.
World War 2 gave a new impetus to naval flying which gradually changed naval tactics from a ship versus ship conflict to aircraft versus ships, with devastating effect.
The crippling of the Italian Fleet in Taranto Harbour by Swordfish biplanes carrying torpedoes in a night attack in 1940 was undoubtedly the most notable Fleet Air Arm success of the war, although the FAA served in almost every theatre of the second world war, taking part in the Battle of France, low countries and the Britain, Battle of Atlantic, Russian convoys, Invasion of Madagascar, North Africa, Libyan Desert campaigns, invasion of Sicily, Italy, and Southern France, D-day Normandy invasion, Battle of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the invasion of Japan.

At the onset of the Second World War, the Fleet Air Arm consisted of 20 Squadrons and 232 aircraft on strength.
By the end of the World War 2 the strength of the Fleet Air Arm was: 59 aircraft carriers, 3,700 aircraft, 72,000 officers and men and 56 air stations all over the world.

The US concentrated most of their aircraft carriers in the Pacific against the Japanese.

Answer 2

Because the UK was already the 'air strip one'. There was no need of carriers because they could use british air bases in England. The carriers were much more usefull in the Pacific, against the Japanese. And, also, in 1941/1942 the Allies already were in control of the North Atlantic (the Royal Navy had destroyed the german fleet).

Answer 3

There was no need to. England was a great base for heavy bombers, and it would have been pointless to risk an aircraft carrier in the North Sea or the Mediterranean when plenty of land was available.

Answer 4

Japan. throughout the time of international conflict II us of a of america operated 24 plane carriers (unique CV), 9 easy plane carriers (CVL), and seventy seven Escort plane carriers (CVE). Losses have been as follows: CVs lost 4 (4): CV-2 Lexington CV-5 Yorktown CV-7 Wasp CV-8 Hornet CVLs lost One (a million): CVL-23 Princeton CVEs lost 5 (5): CVE-21 Block Island CVE-fifty six Liscome Bay CVE-sixty 3 halfway CVE-seventy 3 Gambier Bay CVe-ninety 5 Bismarck Sea to that end an entire of ten (10) plane carriers of all varieties have been lost. word the army's first plane provider Langley replaced into additionally lost yet replaced into considered a seaplane comfortable on the time being redesignated AV-3. All information from Samuel Eliot Morison, historical past of U.S. Naval Operations in WWII, complement and well-known Index.

Answer 5

Because the war in Europe was mainly a land war and aircraft carriers would have been very vulnerable to german U-boats

Answer 6

They did, it was called Great Britain. The biggest aircraft carrier in the war.

Answer 7

We did. They helped provide the air cover for convoys, but they turned out to be far more useful in the Pacific, where the distances were far too long for aircraft to traverse at that time.

Answer 8

The US Navy did use aircraft carriers in the ETO, mainly for hunting U-boats.

Answer 9

They had a huge aircraft carrier called England. It had the added advantage of being unsinkable.

Answer 10

I would guess the aircraft carriers were on the West Coast of America, and many were lost at Pearl Harbour. Even if there were any on the East Coast, crossing the Atlantic Ocean would have been extremely dangerous, I doubt if they could zig-zag fast enough to dodge the U-boats.