The US 6th Airborne Division was a 'Phantom Division' created for Operation Vendetta in 1944. Like the British 4th

4th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)

The British 4th Airborne Division was a deception division created as part of Operation Cascade in March of 1943.-History:As created, the unit was notionally based in Palestine and incorporated both the fictitious 1st Special Air Service Brigade created during Operation Abeam and the real 4th...

 and 5th

5th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)

The British 5th Airborne Division was a deception division created in late 1943 as part of Operation Foynes to cover the departure 1st Airborne Division from Italy...

 Airborne Divisions, the notional formation was 'built up' around a real unit, the 517th Regimental Combat Team

517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team

The 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team , one of the U.S. Army's first elite combat units, began its existence in March 1943, training at Camp Toccoa in the backwoods of Georgia...

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World War II

Supposedly arrived in Sicily from the United States in May 1944. It was attached to the US 7th Army and was to be dropped on the town of Paulhan

Paulhan

Paulhan is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France....

 in France to support a fictional invasion of the Narbonne

Narbonne

Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...

 region. It was disposed of by announcing in July 1944 that the division had been disbanded.

Composition

HQ in Sicily.

• 517th Regimental Combat Team
  517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team
  The 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team , one of the U.S. Army's first elite combat units, began its existence in March 1943, training at Camp Toccoa in the backwoods of Georgia...
  
  
  • 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  • 596th Airborne Engineer Company
  • 460th Field Artillery Battalion

• 1st Battalion, 551st Parachute Infantry Regiment

• 550th Airborne Battalion