Deception
- 2nd Airborne Division - Formed with the 11th & 12th Parachute Brigades and 13th Air-Landing Brigade. Based in Lincolnshire. Used as a deception division leading up to D-Day with Fourth Army of First U.S. Army Group, and then again for the proposed operation around Kiel-Bremen when Arnhem was underway. The division was disbanded in December 1944, as its troops provided replacements for the 1st & 6th Airborne Divisions. This division should not be confused with the 2nd Indian Airborne Division, formed on 1 November 1945 from the 44th Indian Airborne Division but active only briefly.
- 7th Division (Cyprus) - 14 June 1941 7th Division HQ formed for deception purposes and based in Cyprus; deception continued until June 1943.
- 40th Infantry Division - Formed 9 November 1943 in Sicily as a deception operation. 17 June 1944 disbanded in Sicily.
- 57th Infantry Division - Formed 9 November 1943 in North Africa as a deception measure. 29 July 1944 disbanded in North Africa.
Read more about this topic: List Of British Divisions In World War II
Famous quotes containing the word deception:
“Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expect from their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
—Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)