RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When World War II veteran George Dramis came home, he didn’t talk much about the war. If someone asked what he did there, he’d tell them
Referred to now as the Ghost Army, the U.S. Army’s 23rd Headquarters Special Troops formed in 1944 with a key job: deceive the German military as to the whereabouts of Army divisions.
President Biden signed a bill that bestows the Congressional Gold Medal on the Army units, “a traveling roadshow of deception” credited with saving thousands of Allied lives.