The OP question was could an OVERLORD equivalent and an ANVIL/DRAGOON equivalent been mounted simultaneously or at least closer in time; the answer yes, and one way to have helped make it possible was not diverting landing craft from amphibious lift assignments to NGS assignments.Richard Anderson wrote: ↑02 May 2021, 16:49Sure, except when communications with the NSFC parties was lost...or if, like TORCH and HUSKY, it was before the JASCO and NSFC were developed as a result of TORCH and HUSKY. Plus, all those battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and the lack occasionally had other things to do.
You seem to imagine that the LCS, LCF, LCT(R), LCG, and others were developed because they were cool and someone wanted to waste shipyards and material building them. They were actually developed iteratively to perceived requirements for direct fire support and increased in size and capability until the LCS(L). Most were actually conversions of obsolescent craft, so did not take away much from landing vessel construction.using landing craft to provide NGS is a waste of landing craft. That's what battleships, cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, sloops, gunboats, etc were for...
The assumptions are coming from you in all this. You know what those amount to...