Published May 25, 2021 at 3:10 PM CDT
Provided The Ghost Army Legacy Project A member of the Ghost Army s 603rd Camouflage Engineering Battalion stands in front of an inflatable tank destroyer designed to trick German soldiers.
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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 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.
The Ghost Army Legacy Project is working to honor the 1,100 troops who worked to deceive the enemy in World War II. Filmmaker Rick Beyer and soldier's daughter Carolyn Spence Cagle discussed the effort on St. Louis on the Air.