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Anonymous ID: 22e6ed Nov. 22, 2020, 2:22 p.m. No.11742105   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2180 >>2271 >>2321

Specific examples of the "Ghost Army" are detailed in the bill. Among them:

 

— The first four members of the 23rd Headquarters, Special Troops, landed on D-Day and two became casualties while creating false beach landing sites and that the deceptive activities of the units were integral to several Allied victories across Europe and reduced American casualties.

 

— "Often operating on or near the front lines, the 23rd Headquarters, Special Troops, used inflatable tanks, artillery, airplanes and other vehicles, advanced engineered and skillfully crafted radio trickery to create the illusion of sizable American forces where there were none and to draw the enemy away from Allied troops."

 

— "Soldiers of the 23rd Headquarters, Special Troops, impersonated other, larger Army units by sewing counterfeit patches onto their uniforms, painting false markings on their vehicles, and creating phony headquarters staffed by fake generals, all in an effort to feed false information to Axis spies."

 

— "During the Battle of the Bulge, the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops created counterfeit radio traffic to mask the efforts of General George Patton's Third Army as it mobilized to break through to the 101st Airborne and elements of 10th Armored Division in the besieged Belgian town of Bastogne."

 

— The 3132nd and the 3133rd Signal Service Companies, activated in Pine Camp (now Fort Drum), New York, at the Army Experimental Station in March 1944, were the only two active duty "sonic deception" ground combat units in World War II.

 

https://www.stripes.com/lifestyle/military-history/resolution-seeks-congressional-gold-medal-for-ghost-army-1.653030

 

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