Talk:40th Infantry Division (United States)

40th Aviation Company in Vietnam

The text currently reads: "In January 1968 the company had been redesignated the 40th Aviation Company, having been previously designated the 29th Aviation Company, part of the 29th Infantry Brigade homebased in Hawaii. The 40th Aviation Company did one tour in South Vietnam. It was in active federal service from May 1968 to December 1969." Shelby Staunton's definitive Vietnam Order of Battle includes a complete listing of all Aviation units in Vietnam and the 40th is not among them. It is more likely that the 40th Aviation Company was mobilized to serve on active duty but was not deployed to Vietnam. Another possibility is that the personnel of the 40th were reassigned to an active duty Aviation unit in Vietnam, but so far there's no indication the 40th, under that designation, was in Vietnam.VilePig (talk)

Myths and Legends: Mobilization of the California Army National Guard during the Vietnam War is the only webpage I could find, unsure of it's authenticity though. 21:47, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

40th Infantry Brigade

On this page it list the 184th and 185th Infantry Regiments as the two infantry regiments that are assigned to that brigade. However, on that brigade's wikipedia page it list the 160th and the 184th. I looked up the CA Army National Guard page, and they have listed for unit pages the 160th Infantry and the 184th Infantry, but not the 185th Infantry. Has the 185th been disbanded?--207.114.206.48 (talk) 05:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Flamingly Incorrect Statement

It is absolutely not true that the 40th Div. did not arrive in France until after WW I was over. Whoever wrote that should lose his or her Saturday morning cartoon-watching privileges for eleven months.

The 40th arrived in the middle of the final offensives, colloquially known by its members as the "Big Push." Being converted to a depot division, it did not fight as a unit, but it provided replacements for the other divisions 'on the line.'

My grandfather [original research! all true Wikipediheads stop reading NOW!] was 1st Sgt. of I Co. of the 160th Inf., one of the division's regiments. How it worked was that orders would come down in the morning, "Send x number of men to y division" and off they would go. They sent men to the 77th Div., the New York outfit of which the "Lost Battalion" [not lost; not a battalion; go figure] was a part. Etc. Gosh, there must have been some fighting going on somewhere.

I will revisit this page when I have my dates and references straight, and will fix it. Then I will come after the armchair flatulent who wrote that sentence with a tomahawk, only I won't be able to find him, because all true Wikipediheads hide behind cute little monikers like "Wikimuffin," so nobody knows who's responsible for any of this content, which is frequently diamond-like in its clarity and brilliance, but which contains a few flawed zircons like this bit of pseudo-history. Whoever you are, you lied to the American people, and I hope you feel bad for at least three minutes. After the war was over, indeed!

Terry J. Carter (talk) 04:27, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistency between this article (40th Infantry Division) and article "Battle of Heartbreak Ridge"

This article states: "The [40th] division moved to Korea in January 1952...In Korea, the 40th Infantry Division participated in the battles of Sandbag Castle and Heartbreak Ridge."

However, in the article, "The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge," which is a link in this article, it say's" . . . Heartbreak Ridge was a month-long battle in the Korean War which took place between September 13 and October 15, 1951."

Which is right? Just a note...

76.186.46.191 (talk) 02:54, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

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Potential reference

• http://ncojournal.dodlive.mil/2013/01/29/40th-id-the-history-of-the-sunshine-division/

--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:47, 15 March 2018 (UTC)