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OzarksFirst News

6/7/2021

Ghost Army Recognition Day in Branson

Branson’s big-screen honored soldiers of a largely unknown army this weekend.
In honor of Ghost Army Recognition Day, Branson IMAX showed a documentary on the highly secretive World War II army units.

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St. Louis Post Dispatch

6/3/2021

Cagle and Boccia: Winning the war with weapons of mass deception

Thousands of history books, novels, movies and TV shows depict the many conflicts and battles of World War II. It sometimes seems there are no stories left untold. Yet there are examples of tactical daring, personal courage and sacrifice that have never received the full recognition and honor they deserve. One of them is the Ghost Army.

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St. Louis Public Radio

5/28/2021

The Ghost Army’s Battlefield Deceptions Could Finally See Congressional Honors

In the weeks following D-Day, a highly specialized group of men arrived in France. The 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were there not to fight, but to deceive — mounting a “traveling road show” of inflatable tanks, fake radio broadcasts and more, designed to convince Hitler’s generals that Allied forces were massing where in reality they were not.

Read More and Listen to the Interview with RIck Beyere and Carolyn SPence Cagle.

23ABCNews Bakersfield CS

5/4/2021

Centennial High School Senior
to Receive National Award

A California High School student who is advocating for the Ghost Army has received an award from the Nationioal World War II Musuem in New Orleans.

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Woonsocket Valley Breeze

4/22/2021

Woonsocket ‘Secret War’ takes center stage in virtual event

WOONSOCKET – In the 1940s, dozens of city residents who worked at the Alice Mill participated in a secret war effort that would help turn the tide of World War II. The only thing was, they didn’t know it at the time.

Military Times

4/19/2021

Recognition Sought For WWII
'Ghost Army' Unit
By Jessie Karangu

A movement is in the works to award members of the recently declassified WWII "Ghost Army" unit with a Congressional Gold Medal. Rick Beyer, president of the Ghost Army Legacy Project, joins us to discuss the tactics this group used to become successful.

Washington Times "Inside the Beltway"

4/13/2021

Congress Stands Up for 'Ghost Army'
by Jennifer Harper
Let us pause to remember and honor the “Ghost Army,” the top secret World War II-era Army unit that staged 20 daring and deceptive operations near the front lines of Europe.