Ghost Army in the News
The Ghost Army’s Battlefield Deceptions Could Finally See Congressional Honors
St. Louis Public Radio
Friday, May 28, 2021
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.