![]() ![]() “So they’re impersonating the 30th and 79th Infantry Divisions and they bluffed the Germans into believing they were crossing the Rhine river, and the Germans bit on it.” “This was the operation that is considered their greatest success,” Decuers said. And finally, the camouflage unit - the string section of this troupe - with hundreds of inflatable tanks, artillery pieces, trucks, and machinery that had to be tied down so a strong wind wouldn’t blow them away. It was like a symphony of subterfuge and each member of the Ghost Army had a role to play sonic deception formed the brass section, with pre-recorded sounds of tanks and troops thundering toward the river signals as the woodwinds, sending misdirection over morse code in a harmony of toots and beeps the engineers as the percussion, leading with bold decoys, manning fake checkpoints and outposts. ![]() “They used the fake unit patches and bumper markings on their vehicles, and then they employed the sonic deception, the fake radio traffic, and they even created a phony divisional and battalion headquarters in a town.” Just a few of the 603rd Camouflage Engineer Battalion’s many inflatable tanks. “So for this deception, they employed 600 of these inflatable tanks and artillery pieces,” Decuers said. ![]() The Ghost Army’s greatest success came during Operation Viersen, in which the unit of craftsmen, artisans, and artists, conned the German military into thinking that two divisions - some 30,000 Allied soldiers - were going to cross a particular part of the Rhine river.Īnd so, the Germans allocated their limited forces to hold a position against just 1,100 men. ![]()
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