Nonfiction account of the WWII Ghost Army—artists who fooled German forces with inflatable tanks, sound effects, and deception.
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Nonfiction account of the WWII Ghost Army—artists who fooled German forces with inflatable tanks, sound effects, and deception.
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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 Normand...
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will contain mild spoilers
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WWII Allied operations and wartime military strategy as background
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