Less well known than the fake Fortitude South army, the Ghost army came into Normandy and then on into Germany. They would replace units moving out or mimic units in places they'd never been.

This video was built on info from this book by Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles
THE GHOST ARMY
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00:00 Intro
00:35 Warfare Deception in history
02:30 Ghost army inception
09:30 Recording at Fort Knox
12:10 First elements at Ste Mere eglise
13:15 Remainder into Trevieres near Omaha beach
16:50 Real tanks and Dummy tanks
19:40 Liberating wine drom colaborators bar in Luxembourg
22:10 Measuring signposts
25:30 Hurtgen forest
26:50 Battle of the bulge starts
29:30 Art Gallery
30:50 Crossing the Rhine
34:00 Guarding refugee camps


D-day and Battle of Normandy sites visited or to be visited
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach
Sword beach
Pointe du Hoc
American airborne
Utah beach
Juno beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Saint Marie du Mont
Waverly Wray
Band of Brothers
Merville gun battery
La Fierre
General Falley
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
82nd airborne
101st airborne
Donald Burgett
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
Totalise
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
Ed Shames
Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
The Malmann line
Taking Cherbourg
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station
Operation Epsom
Operation Charnwood
Operation Jupiter


Photo credits
US national archives
Bundes archives

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