Talk:52nd Troop Carrier Wing

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Some history[edit]

This page was started as the 52d Troop Carrier Wing (World War II) in October 2011. It was moved to 52d Fighter Wing (Air National Guard) by the only editor who had worked on it until that point.

The reason for the 2011 move was "WP:MILMOS#UNITNAME An article about a unit, formation, or base should be placed at "Name (optional disambiguator)". The name should generally be either the official name used by the armed forces to which the unit or base belongs. When a unit or base has had multiple names over the course of its existence, the title should generally be the last name used . . ."

In January 2013, following discussion elsewhere on article names for Air National Guard fighter wings during the period 1946-1950 in general, several articles were renamed, mostly by removing unneeded disambiguators. In the case of the 52d Wing, because the unit participated in combat during World War II as a troop carrier wing, and was only partly manned during its period with the Guard. the page was moved to 52d Troop Carrier Wing (the disambiguator on the original article title was unnecessary) under the exception to articles about units for "cases where the subject is clearly more commonly known by one of the previous names." Also influencing this decision was a desire to avoid any confusion by locating the full article at a location that might cause confusion with the regular Air Force 52d Fighter Wing article and to use a name not requiring a disambiguator. --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:24, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]