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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]
Aliapoulos is mentioned in a film and numerous books: in the documentary, The Ghost Army directed by Rick Beyer, pictured and mentioned in page 29 of the book Ghosts of the ETO - American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theatre 1944-1945 [11] written by the author Jonathan Gawne [12] and pictured and mentioned in the book The Ghost ...
Hitler told the Japanese that the allies intended two attacks across the English Channel in the summer of 1944 and he wasn’t about the be fooled by the first one. Remarkably, as hoped, the ...
The Ghost Army Official Web Site; The Ghost Army at IMDb; on YouTube (producer's YouTube Channel) Garber, Megan. "Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler", The Atlantic, May 22, 2013. The Ghost Army of World War II, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. (ISBN 978-1616893187
The Ghost Army included about 1,100 soldiers in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, which carried out about 20 battlefield deceptions in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, and around 200 ...
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In one particularly chilling sequence, US Army Major Rosemary Wilson, a rich older woman, stumbles upon Waller, the beautiful German girl who is carrying the plans for Hitler's escape. Instead of interrogating the girl or turning her over to the American MPs , Major Wilson insists on renting a room for Waller and taking her to dinner at a small ...
Secret Army is the third book in the Henderson's Boys series. It was published on 4 February 2010 by Hodder Children's Books. [14] The novel is set from January to February 1941. The British spy Charles Henderson has returned to Britain, having thwarted Nazi invasion plans, and wants to start an organisation training teenagers as secret agents ...