The Ghost Army was ordered to make a mad dash across France to lend a hand to General George Patton's Third Army. ... even sketching a logo he wanted to use for his fashion designs after the war.

The Ghost Army included about 1,100 soldiers in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, which carried out about 20 battlefield deceptions in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, ...

The so-called Ghost Army would impersonate a specific larger division, such as the 6 th Armored Division, which had 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers. Only about 1,000 soldiers constituted the Ghost Army.

The push to recognize the Ghost Army wound up on former Utah Republican Rep. Chris Stewart’s desk after the granddaughter of one of the veterans, Stanley Nance, did a school project on the unit.

The Ghost Army, or the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, was made up of more than 1,100 engineers, artists and draftees, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Congress awarded its highest civilian honor to a long-secret Army unit that helped win World War II with battlefield deception. Just seven members of the 1,300-man Ghost Army are still alive.

The Ghost Army is credited with saving thousands of American lives and helping end WWII in Europe. But its contributions were kept secret for half a century before it was awarded Congress' top honor.

Many of the Ghost soldiers were artists, recruited to use their creativity in deceiving and befuddling the German army during the latter years of WWII. Tactics included inflatable tanks, phony ...

The Ghost Army is credited with saving thousands of American lives and helping end WWII in Europe. But its contributions were kept secret for half a century before it was awarded Congress' top honor.

The Ghost Army included about 1,100 soldiers in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, which carried out about 20 battlefield deceptions in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, ...