The American GIs who duped the Nazis with inflatable tanks, sound effects and elaborate illusions will receive the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday at the Capitol.
as they waded ashore. Bloated bodies churned in the surf. Tree branches cradled the carcass of a cow blown skyward by explosives.Fear and adrenaline coursed through the GIs, along with hope that they wouldn’t have to fire their rifles. Their mission, after all, wasn’t to kill Nazis but to perform for them.
“It’s the first mobile, multimedia, tactical deception unit in the history of warfare,” he said. “They are capable of projecting their deception — visual, sound, radio, special effects — through all these different means, and they are essentially another arrow in the quiver of a battlefield commander to maneuver the enemy.”
At Fox’s behest, the Ghost Army added a fourth dimension — physical deceptions referred to as “special effects” — to its visual, sonic and radio initiatives. Operations grew more sophisticated as actors donned uniforms with insignia of other units to impersonate officers and recited choreographed scripts in phony command posts.
“We convinced them that we were the real thing.” As the Germans moved their defenses and shelled the faux force, the 9th Army encountered token resistance as it forded the Rhine with minimal casualties.After the curtain fell on World War II, the military’s greatest showmen, which included artist Ellsworth Kelly and fashion designer Bill Blass, returned home to resume their creative lives.
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