My father, a Navy Veteran of WW II was in the Invasion of Luzon- 1945?,
amphibious vessels.  He was separated from his unit and assigned to an
army unit. He was on the navy ship, The Orvetta in Between 1944-46.
Are the any websites that speak about these assignments from one
branch to another?

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 12 Jun 2006 11:55 PDT

In the confusion of war, especially in the 1940's and before, it was
not uncommon for personnel who became seperated from their units to be
temporarily reassigned ("attached") to any other avialable organized
unit. This practice was necessary in some instances in order to take
advantage of needed manpower and in other cases to simply provide for
the seperated party's welfare.

In modern times these seperated personnel were commonly called
"isolated personnel", which is somewhat of a limbo status between
"accounted for" and "missing in action". I suspect that your father
fell into this category. Such a temporary arrangment is not
technically and "assignement", rather it is a matter of obvious
necessity until he could be reunited with his formal unit.

Is this sufficient or do you require something more?

tutuzdad-ga

Although not precisely the same thing, my dad told me of being in the
U.S. Navy right at the tail end of WW-2. After basic training at Great
Lakes, he was assigned for a spell on Governor's Island teaching
riflemanship to Marines. He was eventually assigned sea duty on a
detroyer, but on the date to report for duty, the only uniform he'd
been issued on the island was from the Army. As he ascended the ramp
onto the ship, one ambitious new officer made an attempt at making it
into a big deal ("That's not the uniform of the day, sailor.").
Another, higher ranking officer advised the gentleman to blow it off,
reminding him that the service branches had just been through several
years of world-war, and that practical considerations must prevail.