Veterans of a top-secret World War II unit that used inflatables and fake soundtracks to feed phony intelligence to Nazi Germany were given the congressional Gold Medal on Thursday. The work of ...

Operation Viersen was one of the Ghost Army’s biggest missions. In March 1945, the group drew German units away from a point on the Rhine River using “hundreds of inflatables” and sound ...

It was, in the words of the Ghost Army Legacy Project, “a traveling road show of deception.” The effect was to head-fake the Nazis, allowing real military units to maneuver unchallenged.

A secretive US Army unit was honoured on Thursday, 80 years after their special effects saved tens of thousands of lives during World War Two. The group received the Congressional Gold Medal ...

This is your final day to see this traveling exhibit highlighting the US Army’s 23rd Headquarters Special Troops—more commonly known as the “Ghost Army”—a top secret unit that waged war using ...