The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious FakeryChronicle Books, 12.05.2015 - 257 Seiten The Ghost Army of World War II describes a perfect example of a little-known, highly imaginative, and daring maneuver that helped open the way for the final drive to Germany. It is a riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way—ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously. – Tom Brokaw In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a massive collection of sound-effects records, and more than a few tricks up their sleeves, their job was to create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to fool the enemy about the strength and location of American units. Between missions the artists filled their duffel bags with drawings and paintings and dragged them across Europe. Every move they made was top secret and their story was hushed up for decades after the war's end. The Ghost Army of World War II is the first publication to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives. |
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Chapter 2 The Art Boys | 25 |
Chapter 3 Men of Wile | 37 |
Chapter 4 Journey into the Unknown | 53 |
Chapter 5 When First We Practice to Deceive | 61 |
Chapter 6 Special Effects | 81 |
Chapter 7 Adolph You Son of A Bitch | 91 |
Chapter 12 The Coldest Winter in Forty Years | 171 |
Chapter 13 One Last Grand Deception | 189 |
Chapter 14 A Toast to Freedom | 201 |
Laudable and Glorious | 223 |
Selected Postwar Biographies | 230 |
Sources and Notes | 240 |
Acknowledgments | 244 |
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Chapter 8 A Great Town | 103 |
Chapter 9 One Bad Spot in My Line | 113 |
Chapter 10 They Even Had Art Supplies | 123 |
Chapter 11 All Their Heavy Hitters | 147 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
23rd Headquarters Special American Art Kane Arthur Shilstone Arthur Singer artillery artists attack Bastogne battalion Bernie Mason Bettembourg Bill Blass Biow Briey camouflage Camp Forrest Captain Colonel command Corporal Jack Masey deceivers deception mission Diary of Sergeant Dick Syracuse died dummy tanks Ellsworth Kelly enemy France front George Martin George Rebh George Vander Sluis German Ghost Army Ghost Army soldiers Ghost Army veteran going guns half-track Harold Laynor Headquarters Special Troops impersonating Infantry Division inflatable Jack McGlynn jeep Joe Spence John Jarvie Luxembourg City moving night Normandy officer Official History painting Paris Patton phony Private Harold Dahl Railey Ralph Ingersoll Ray Harford Reeder Roy Eichhorn Russians Sergeant Bob Tompkins Sergeant Victor Dowd Seventy-Fifth Simenson sketch sonic unit sounds Spike Berry Stanley Nance story told town Trévières trucks Twenty-Third Headquarters Special unit’s United States Army Walter Arnett William Sayles World wrote York