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The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. [2] [3] The 1,100-man unit was given a unique mission: to deceive Hitler's forces and mislead them as to the size and location of Allied forces, while giving the actual units elsewhere time to maneuver. [4]
Among those who employed these diversionary strategies was John J. Williams with the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, which, along with the 3133rd Signal Service Company, was known as the Ghost Army.
The Ghost Army is a 2013 American documentary about the United States Army 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, ... Army unit of 1,100 troops that was set up in 1944 and ...
[10] with the Ghost Army (officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops). [5] [3] [4] [8] [9] during World War II. [6] [7] Earlier in his life, Aliapoulos was featured in The Boston Globe newspaper for rescuing two children from their cribs in a tenement fire in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1939. [14]
The ghost image is a nod to the Ghost army that was under the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops during World War II. The unit created fake unit patches and fake blow-up Sherman tanks and military ...
A special troops battalion (STB) is an organic unit of a modular brigade, division (or equivalent), corps or higher echelon United States Army organization. It may comprise companies from different branches of the army, but typically has a Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) and Signal Network Company at a minimum.
Upon the return of the division headquarters and 1st Brigade from Afghanistan after supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, the 10th Mountain Division began the process of transformation into a modular division. On 16 September 2004, the division headquarters finished its transformation, which returned the Special Troops Battalion to active ...
On 23 July 1918, the War Department directed the organization of the 100th Division at Camp Bowie, Texas.Plans called for the division to include a headquarters, headquarters troop, the 199th Infantry Brigade (397th and 398th Infantry Regiments and 374th Machine Gun Battalion), 200th Infantry Brigade (399th and 400th Infantry Regiments and 375th Machine Gun Battalion), 373rd Machine Gun ...