48th Armored Division The 48th Armored Division was a division of the United States Army National Guard from September 1946 until 1968 . Most of its units were located within the Florida Army National Guard and the Georgia Army National Guard . From 1946 to 1955 it was an infantry division . During World War II the denotation 48th Infantry Division was used for a deceptive formation created for Operation Quicksilver , part of Operation Fortitude South II . 48th Division of the National Guard . The 48th " Hurricane " Infantry Division was formed on 15 September 1946 of Florida and Georgia National Guardsmen . Just four days after the organization of the 51st " Rattlesnake " Infantry Division , which included some of Florida ' s Army National Guard units , the balance of the state ' s Guard units were combined with most of Georgia ' s Army National Guard to constitute the newly organized 48th " Hurricane " Infantry Division . The 124th Infantry Regiment of the Florida ARNG was assigned on 5 July 1946 to the 48th Infantry Division . It was broken up on 1 November 1955 and its elements , the 124th Armored Infantry Battalion and the 154th Armored Infantry Battalion were both assigned to the 48th Armored Division . The 124th and 154th Armored Infantry Battalions were consolidated 15 April 1959 to form the 124th Infantry , a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System , to consist of the 1st and 2d Armored Rifle Battalions , elements of the 48th Armored Division . " To prepare for challenges in Western Europe , the new troop basis authorized the conversion of four National Guard infantry divisions to armored divisions . " Georgia , and Florida agreed to convert and on 1 November 1955 the 48th Division was redesignated as an armored division . When the 51st Infantry Division was inactivated in 1963 , some of its units , both from Florida and South Carolina , were assigned to the 48th Armored Division . To better support the division ' s expanded unit base , its headquarters was moved north from Jacksonville , Florida , to Macon , Georgia . When the Army National Guard experienced its next major reorganization in 1967 , the 48th Armored Division was chosen for inactivation , which occurred on 1 January 1968 . Soldiers and units in Florida were assigned to the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team . The number " 48 " was carried on by the Georgia National Guard and is today the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team . WW II Deception Formation . The 48th Infantry Division was ' created ' in 1944 as an imaginary ' deception ' formation . It formed part of Operation Quicksilver and Fortitude South II to replace the real 6th Armored Division when it moved to Normandy . The division was presented to the Germans as a well trained unit that had been formed at Camp Clatsop , Oregon in 1942 . Following training at the Desert Training Center and maneuvers in the Olympic Peninsula the division had guarded the ALCAN Highway before being shipped to England in June 1944 , where Agent Garbo reported that the uncle of one of his agents ( An American NCO in the ETO Services of Supply . ) was a member of the division , which was not at the time he made the report under the command of either the First US Army Group or the 21st Army Group . After disembarkation , the division established its initial headquarters at Newcastle - under - Lyme in Staffordshire before moving to Woodbridge in Suffolk . There , as part of the U . S . XXXIII Corps ( United States ) of the US 14th Army it was assigned the role of following up the Pas de Calais landings . Following Fortitude South II the division was depicted as moving to Brockenhurst in Hampshire where it carried out air landing training in conjunction with the US 21st Airborne Division . In December 1944 the division was depicted as moving to Dundee in Scotland where it was disbanded at the start of 1945 , with some soldiers being used as replacements for other units while a small cadre returned to the United States . In addition to the usual divisional support units the 48th Infantry Division was presented as including the :