The top-secret 'Ghost Army' unit, which used inflatable tanks and costumes to fool Nazi Germany in WWII, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal ...

The Ghost Army was made up of more than 1,000 troops — though could simulate two units totaling some 30,000 service members, according to the National WWII Museum.

The Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest honor, is being awarded to the Ghost Army, a secretive American military unit from World War II. This recognition comes after the unit's decades ...

The Ghost Army, a military unit created to deceive the Nazis in WWII, received Congress' highest honor on Thursday. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 67°F. Monday, June 2nd 2025 ...

Honoring America's WWII "Ghost Army" 01:22 Washington — Members of the Ghost Army, a top-secret military unit credited with saving thousands of Americans during World War II using distraction ...

The Ghost Army. 5/15/2024 | 55m 40s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The amazing story of the secret WWII unit that duped Hitler's Army. War, deception, art and glory come together in the ...

The Ghost Army units: groups of soldiers armed with little more than inflatable weaponry and sound machines. Courtesy of Karen Skibba. Corporal Al Albrecht, and other men from the Ghost Army, ...

The Ghost Army was a unit with about 1,100 soldiers that conducted 22 different “deception missions” starting right after D-Day until the end of the war. Camp Forrest: ...

A dummy M4 Sherman tank was part of the top-secret Ghost Army. Unit members served on the battlefields during World War II and are credited with saving up to 15,000 lives of Allied and American ...

Beyer, who formed the Ghost Army Legacy Project in 2015 to lobby for a Congressional Gold Medal, said that's one of the reasons he became so dedicated to ensuring the unit was honored.

Before he would lead the U.S. 3rd Army across western Europe, Gen. George Patton spent the first half of 1944 in charge of a somewhat different command. It was the First U.S. Army Group, or FUSAG ...