The Ghost Army of World War 2

An Army of a different type...with a different mission.  We dive into the "Ghost Army". of World War 2! 

Episode Transcript

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The Ghost of the Allied Forces willdiscuss as we took a bite out of
history with ingles markets. It's WorldWar II in the European theater with its
twenty third Headquarters Special Troops, betterknown as the Ghost Army. The twenty
third had a special mission, amission of deception to confuse and this lead
Hitler's Army, and they employed awide variety of tactics. They wanted the
Germans to think the Allied forces werebigger than they were, so they deployed

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fake tanks, jeeps, cannons,and even airplanes, all inflatables that the
Ghost Army would inflate, then deflateand move. They recorded the sound of
tanks moving and men marching at FortKnox, then played the sound back with
massive speakers and amplifiers attached the sideof trucks. You can hear for fifteen
miles. The Ghost Army use spoofradio, using voice actors from the movies
to read prepared scripts over the radio. Given the enemy fake movements, the

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twenty third made their way with deceptionthroughout Europe and eventually into Germany with other
Allied forces, completing twenty separate campaigns. The Ghost Army was kept a secret
for fifty years, and finally declassifiedin nineteen ninety six. Members have since
been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.This has been a bite out of history
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