Talk:Frederick Mayer (spy)

Is this article about Frederick Mayer or Operation Greenup?
After reading this article I cannot make my mind up about what is more notable: the man or the events that he was involved in?

There were many OSS agents in WWII, and they carried out many operations. But this article starts off as an biography, then mentions a completely unrelated person and then concludes with a narrative about a wartime event; that has contains no dates, places etc or many inline links.

It's like including details about a big event, such as WWII in a biographical article about Roosevelt, Hitler or Churchill. It's seem to be how this article has been contrived. The emphasis should be either on Greenup or Mayer. It doesn't work for both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.23.89 (talk) 17:09, 4 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for pointing that out. The subjects are strongly related, but it's best that the bio and the operation be split into two separate articles. One day it can be split into two articles, per Splitting. Perhaps you will do it or perhaps another editor.-- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 22:52, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Missing Medals
Hello, in the article there is missing a full list of his medals and the way he got them:

Legion of Merit; Good Conduct Medal; American Campaign Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three Bronze Star devices; World War II Victory Medal; World War II Honorable Service Lapel Button; and Parachutist Badge

http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=1eb2114c-fb70-4c10-863e-7c4ae89b837c

Dont know how to add this infos to the page.

Greetings from germany a marksman — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.162.48.136 (talk) 22:39, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Classified as a start
This article has been classified as a start due to its level of detail. Capitalistroadster (talk) 01:01, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

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contradictions
The cited video, which includes spoken remembrance from Mayer, describes certain details of Greenup as different from what the article now (2021) says.Kdammers (talk) 04:53, 19 November 2021 (UTC)