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Weapons of Mass Deception [WW2 Ghost Army]
Works That Work ^
| 2015 (Vol. 6)
| Rick Beyer
Posted on 12/22/2015 11:19:50 AM PST by QT3.14
Imagine being assigned to create a massive trompe l’oeil, and not just a painting, but a complex, 3-D, multimedia installation spread out over many kilometres. Imagine that it must convince an attentive and discerning audience to believe in and interact with something that is not really there. Further imagine that your workspace is in the middle of a war zone, and that thousands of lives depend on your success. Also, imagine that next week you will be asked to do it again. That, in a nutshell, was the mission given to the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, also known as the Ghost Army, one of the most unusual units to serve in the United States Army during the Second World War. Included in its ranks were art students, sound engineers and Hollywood writers, and its ultimate goal was to use creativity, performance, and sleight of hand to save lives and help win the war.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: army; deceit; deception; europe; military; ww2
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:19:50 AM PST
by
QT3.14
To: QT3.14
I think Øbama likes would like that now as our military.
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:27:05 AM PST
by
QT3.14
(USA is facing assisted-suicide by the Left)
To: QT3.14
Patches for the units of George Patton's First US Army Group- which didn't exist, except for some troops assigned to move dummy balsa and canvas and inflatable equipment around, and radio operators furiously sending coded messages between other nonexistent units.
But the patches for some of those outfits were made up, and some were distributed so that *neutral* freign diplomats and others could observe them.
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:49:15 AM PST
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
To: archy
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:53:29 AM PST
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: QT3.14
They Employed (Drafted By Order of the Crown) the best magicians Britain had, at that time, as well.
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posted on
12/22/2015 11:59:37 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: QT3.14
Thanks for the good read.
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posted on
12/22/2015 12:04:17 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: archy
But the patches for some of those outfits were made up, and some were distributed so that *neutral* freign diplomats and others could observe them. LOL - Very nice... can I assume 'neutral' foreign diplomats was in quotes for a damn good reason?
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posted on
12/22/2015 12:05:34 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(ISIS used Bill Clinton in recruitment ad as a 'fornicator'- Will Clinton change his lifestyle?)
To: All
I just remembered this ghost army was the premise of the spy flick ‘Eye of the Needle’ with Donald Sutherland where he learns on the eve of D-Day in 1944, phony plywood “airplanes” intended to look, from the air, like Patton’s invasion force, but it’s a ruse to throw off the Germans.
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posted on
12/22/2015 1:11:09 PM PST
by
QT3.14
(USA is facing assisted-suicide by the Left)
To: QT3.14
And now we are being played with a hoax that is almost the opposite; we are being invaded by an enemy army, that the media claims “does not exist”.
Apparently, we have nothing to fear except the lack of fear.
History repeats, but sometimes it inverts.
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posted on
12/22/2015 1:23:11 PM PST
by
ChicagahAl
(Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
To: GOPJ
LOL - Very nice... can I assume 'neutral' foreign diplomats was in quotes for a damn good reason? IE, reporting as agents of German intelligence; in particular some of those from Spain, Portugal, Argentina and a couple of other *neutral* Scandanavian countries.
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posted on
12/23/2015 9:05:26 AM PST
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
To: archy
IE, reporting as agents of German intelligence; in particular some of those from Spain, Portugal, Argentina and a couple of other *neutral* Scandanavian countries. Thanks archy...
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posted on
12/23/2015 9:07:04 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(No one in power is on our side.No one in power is on our side. Absolutely no one. freeper marron)
To: GOPJ
IE, reporting as agents of German intelligence; in particular some of those from Spain, Portugal, Argentina and a couple of other *neutral* Scandanavian countries.
Thanks archy...
Thank you!. Aw rats! Gave meself away, I did!
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posted on
12/29/2015 10:39:00 AM PST
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
To: archy
That ‘thank you’ drew more gasps in movie theaters than anything before it. Amazing scene.
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posted on
12/29/2015 11:17:54 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Trump's instincts are as formidable as his courage,he knows the nation's bleeding out..DWest)
To: QT3.14
I saw that on Netflix. Those guys were awesome!
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