Editing Commando (section)

=== United States ===
{{Main|United States Army Rangers|Marine Raiders|Paramarines|Underwater Demolition Team|Air Commando}}

During 1941, the [[United States Marine Corps]] formed commando battalions.  The USMC commandos were known collectively as [[Marine Raiders]]. On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt through a proposal from OSS Director Colonel William J. Donovan and the former Commander of the United States Marine Detachment Major Evans F Carlson, directed the formation of what became the Marine Raiders. Initially this unit was to be called Marine Commandos and were to be the counterpart to the British Commandos. The name Marine Commandos met with much controversy within the Marine Corps leading Commandant Thomas J. Holcomb to state, "the term 'Marine' is sufficient to indicate a man ready for duty at any time, and the injection of a special name, such as ''commando'', would be undesirable and superfluous." President Roosevelt's son James Roosevelt served with the Marine Raiders. The Raiders initially saw action at the [[Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo#Battle of Tulagi|Battle of Tulagi]] and the [[Battle of Makin]], as well as the [[Battle of Guadalcanal]], the [[Battle of Empress Augusta Bay]], and other parts of the [[Pacific Ocean Areas]]. In February 1944 the four Raider battalions were converted to regular Marine units. Additionally, as parachuting special forces units, [[Paramarines]] arguably also qualified as commandos<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEeaBgAAQBAJ&q=paramarine+commandos&pg=PA5|title=America's Commandos: U.S. Special Operations Forces of World War II and Korea|first=Leroy|last=Thompson|date=11 February 2001|publisher=Frontline Books|access-date=16 May 2017|via=Google Books|isbn=9781853674587}}</ref>- though they too were assimilated into regular Marine units in 1944.

In mid-1942, the [[United States Army]] formed its [[United States Army Rangers|Army Rangers]] in [[Northern Ireland]] under [[William Orlando Darby|William O. (Bill) Darby]]. The Rangers were designed along the similar lines to the British Commandos. The first sizable Ranger action took place in August 1942 at the [[Dieppe Raid]], where 50 Rangers from the 1st Ranger Battalion were dispersed among Canadian regulars and British Commandos. The first full Ranger action took place in November 1942 during the invasion of Algiers in [[Northwest Africa]] in [[Operation Torch]], again by members of the 1st Ranger Battalion.<ref>Thomson, W.R., "Massacre at Dieppe," ''History of the Second World War'', BPC Publishing, LTD, London, GB, 2nd ed., 1972.</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2018}}