Everything they did was to deceive the enemy, while giving actual units elsewhere time to move around. The Ghost Army was a unit with about 1,100 soldiers that conducted 22 different “deception ...

Known as the Ghost Army, this unit's efforts 80 years ago marked the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler. Seymour Nussenbaum, one of the last surviving members of the Ghost Army, described the ...

It was, in the words of the Ghost Army Legacy Project, “a traveling road show of deception.” The effect was to head-fake the Nazis, allowing real military units to maneuver unchallenged.

A secretive US Army unit was honoured on Thursday, 80 years after their special effects saved tens of thousands of lives during World War Two. The group received the Congressional Gold Medal ...