The Ghost Army archive contains both physical items, such as photographs, letters, maps and artifacts; and an even larger digital collection that includes more of those items as well as documents, video interviews and oral histories. You can find an overview of our collections here. We have also published our collection list to a Google Sheet, enabling you to browse the collection or search for specific items. We plan to post other finding aids in the near future. Eventually, our plans call for donating the archive to a major research institution so these materials will always be preserved and available to researchers.
Online Items
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A selection of items from our archive which appear on the website. You can also use the search box at right to find something you are looking for
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• Official History
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The Official History of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was written in September, 1945, and the original is in the National Archives. The text of the document, along with maps and photos, has been digitized and appears, in full, on the website.
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• Interviews
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Selected interviews with Ghost Army veterans, accompanied by transcripts
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• Curtis Collection
The Curtis Collection contains 90 rare photos of infltable dummies used in World War II. 28 of the photos appear on the website. They demonstrate the variety of the dummies used by the unit, as well as some of the details of their construction.
• Nussenbaum Scrapbooks
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Ghost Army Veteran Seymour Nussenbaum's two wartime scrabooks offer a treasure-trove of information about his wartime experiences. The scrapbooks total more than 250 pages. 50 pages of each srapbook are reproduced on the website
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• Dahl Letters
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Harold J. Dahl served in the 603rd Camouflage Engineers. Over the course of the war he wrote more than 200 letters back home. Transcripts of 52 letters from the Dahl Collection are reproduced chronologically on the website.
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