Template:Did you know nominations/7th Division (Finland)

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The result was: promoted by DanCherek (talk) 18:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

7th Division (Finland)

  • ... that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops? Source: "The 10th Division at Taipale also needed a well- earned rest, but there were not enough reserves to rotate into its sector. All that could be done was to renumber it the 7th Division, in the hope that the enemy would think it was confronted with a new unit here." from: Chew, Allen F. (1971). The White Death: The Epic of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. p. 140.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice new article (t · c) buidhe 21:34, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the review buidhe and for adding the cats (can't believe I forgot them!) - Dumelow (talk) 22:10, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Promoting to Prep 3. DanCherek (talk) 18:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)