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.

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Stephanee Leech

8/28/2021 05:15:15 am

I enjoyed listening to the replay of the interview. My father was in the Ghost Army and I never heard anything about it either...ever...so listening to Carolyn and Rick talk about it was interesting and informative.

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