Talk:United States Army deception formations of World War II

Reasons for deletion

Information is not referenced and appears to be sourced from an article on GlobalSecurity that has been shown to be factually incorrect. Further another article on this subject is currently being worked on.Graham1973 (talk) 01:31, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

References

I'm parking the references & bibliography sections here until the true source of the material in the article can be located.

Bibliography

• Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. Phoenix. 2005. ISBN 0-75381-917-1
• Hesketh, Roger. Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign. St Ermin's Press. 1999 ISBN 0-316-85172-8

46th Infantry Division

It was both a phantom division and a division organized later (1947) from a Michigan National Guard division. The distinctive unit insignia (patch, shoulder sleeve insignia) was apparently briefly used later but it was changed to the fist symbol soon after the postwar organization. This double use of the unit number briefly led me to delete the otherwise orphan and unneeded section. I had focused on the later organization but briefly overlooked the use of the number as a phantom division with distinct insignia. Even though it was a "ghost" or "phantom" division in its first iteration, I think it should not be in a separate "ghost division" section. It should be put in the table with the other phantom divisions. Since I had deleted it for several minutes, I am not going to do that immediately since I just revert my edit which removed, not moved, the entry. I will put it in the table at a later time if no one else does before then - and cite Barry Jason Stein's book for the details. Donner60 (talk) 10:30, 7 May 2017 (UTC)