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Title: The Ghost Army
Post by: Hap on March 10, 2015, 09:50:58 AM

War, deception & art come together in this story of GI's who tricked Germany.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365012023/ (http://video.pbs.org/video/2365012023/)

Title: Re: The Ghost Army
Post by: SysError on March 10, 2015, 08:35:48 PM

Interesting.  I did not know that a Ghost Army was used after D-Day.

The only one that I knew about was Patton's operation Quicksilver.

http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/pattons-ghost-army/

In fact I thought that some of the footage in your video was the same that I had seen in documentaries on the Patton army.

Interesting also that the whole thing was kept secret after the end of WWII in case same measures were needed  against a possible war with USSR.

 

Title: Re: The Ghost Army
Post by: Hap on March 11, 2015, 07:58:35 AM

Aside from the ruse with Patton, I, too, did not know of this.

The renderings of the boy/soldiers/artists are very dear also.