Posted on 04/30/2019 8:05:44 AM PDT by DFG
Fleets of tanks lined up among a pool of military trucks. Fatigues hung from clothing lines, airplanes waited to propel into action at the edge of an airfield while cannons and crates of munitions stacked high waited to be loaded onto camouflaged jeeps. Radio signals picked up by the Axis Power intelligence community confirmed what Nazi reconnaissance planes saw while flying overhead: the United States Army's 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was a robust, thriving, battalion of 30,000 men ready for action. What the Nazis didn't know is that they were being duped.
The tanks, airplanes, munitions and jeeps were in fact large-scale inflatable decoys as part of an elaborate ruse to deceive enemy forces. This top secret mission and the 1,100 men recruited to stage the unique mission became known as the Ghost Army.
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battalion of 30,000 ??????? Holy crap! I only had 637! That’s not a Bn, that’s a Corps (pronounced Core, not Corpse.)
Mel Brooks was one of them.
A troop of actors based near Shakespeare's birthplace... Let it not be said the military has no sense of humor.
>>Mel Brooks was one of them.
Nope.. Mel Brooks was a combat engineer in the 78th Infantry.
Way back during the Revolutionary War, about 10 Patriots captured a number of British Naval vessels by cutting down trees, painting the trunks black, and “planting” them in the banks of the Pee Dee River in the Marlboro County portion of SC. When the captain of the ship saw the trunks, he thought they were cannons and immediately surrendered.
The article did not mention the similar, earlier decoy army under Patton that was set to cross the channel north of the Normandy landings.
Thanks, I stand corrected; I remember he did something pretty cool from a documentary and thought I recalled this was it...
Didn't they come to be known as "Quaker cannons?"
Regards,
Pretty darn clever.
I honestly don’t know :0)
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