Talk:10th Mountain Division (United States)

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[edit] Question

How is this unit related to the division that fought in Italy during World War II? I do have some materials about the older unit I could contribute, but I don't know when the older division was disbanded & the newer one created. -- llywrch 23:48, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

I think moving this page from 10th Mountain Division was a bad idea. Inserting "U.S." isn't necessary for disambiguation. It's like the Coldstream Guards -- there's only one unit that uses this name. I suggest that it be moved back. JamesMLane 05:01, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree. There are other 10th Division units in other countries, but no other 10th Mountain Division. There is no need to over complicate it by adding an unneeded qualification. --rogerd 15:10, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I was undecided about this for awhile, since as far as I know, the above comments are correct, and the name been officially changed to Mountain instead of Infantry. However, the reasons I finally decided to go along with the change were:
    • The naming convention states "The disambiguator is not necessary in cases where the name of the country is already present in the name of the unit, or where the name is clearly unique. In cases where a unit's name can reasonably be expected to be used by multiple armed forces—particularly in the case of numerical unit designations—the units should generally be pre-emptively disambiguated when the article is created, without waiting for the appearance of a second article on an identically-named unit." So, since a bunch of countries don't have their militaries listed yet, I thought it was better to be proactive.
    • Next, it doesn't really matter too much what the page/article title is. It doesn't complicate things, since people can call (link) it however they want by [[10th Mountain Division (United States)|Whatever name you want the link to be]].
    • I used the AWB program to find all pages that linked to the original page and changed the links accordingly, though maybe the name on a few slipped through the cracks, so they appear with the "(United States) disambiguator. If so, they are easy enough to correct, or you can supply me with the pages and I can can add a new name to the link.
I know how you feel about unit names. I'm ex-Army myself and take pride in my old unit as well, but I didn't change the name of the unit, just the page title the unit's information is on. It can still be referred anyway you wish. wbfergus 15:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Riva Ridge

The horse is named after the German position in Italy, taken by the 10th Mountain Division in WWII. There's 5-figure coverage of that action on the Web, NPR is publicizing some coverage of it today, and the horse article mentions it but the unit's article does not, at least by name. A lack that deserves correction.
--Jerzy•t 19:52, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. Added WWII Task force --dashiellx (talk) 16:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The 10th Mountain & Operation Downfall

According to my father (who was in the 10th during WWII), this division was scheduled to be part of the invasion of the home islands -- an assertion he's repeated many times over the last 4-5 decades. However, the article on this event fails to mention the 10th having any part in this. Can anyone provide a reliable source that confirms what my dad has always told me -- or at least confirm that other members of this unit believed they would have been fed into that meatgrinder had there been no other options? -- llywrch (talk) 22:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)