House Speaker Mike Johnson said during the ceremony that it’s estimated that between 15,000 to 30,000 lives were saved because of the Ghost Army’s work.

Only seven members of the Ghost Army are still alive, the AP reported, and three attended the ceremony in Washington: 100-year-old Bernard Bluestein of Hoffman Estates, Illinois; 99-year-old John ...

One of the nine remaining Ghost Army veterans in the United States, 98-year-old Pfc. Bernie Bluestein, called the decision Wednesday by Congress “an honor.” ...

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 was only made up of 1,100 men, but Tomlin said it could simulate the presence of 30,000 troops. The U.S. Army estimates that the diversions saved between 15,000-30,000 American ...

The Ghost Army’s final act came on March 18, 1945, when the 1,100-man unit deceived Nazi intelligence about the site and timing of the U.S. Ninth Army’s Rhine River crossing.