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The Ghost Army of World War II

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by Rick Beyer


  Fort Drum. See Pine Camp

  Fort Knox, 47

  Fort Meade, 26, 28, 31, 31, 34, 134

  Fort Sam Houston, 18

  Fortune, 16, 46

  Fox, Fred, 21, 68, 83, 83–85, 89, 101, 107, 124, 134, 155, 216, 221, 226, 227, 227, 232

  Official History of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, 221

  France, 10, 11, 17, 54, 58, 59, 62–73, 63, 65, 66, 70–71, 74, 75–79, 82–89, 84, 92–93, 94, 95, 96, 99, 100, 100, 104–111, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 114, 118, 124, 125, 152, 154, 155, 155, 158, 159, 172–174, 174, 177, 177, 178, 181, 181, 182, 183–187, 196, 218, 228

  Briey, 174, 181, 182, 183–187

  Brittany, 70–71, 92, 100, 114

  Normandy, 11, 17, 58, 62–73, 63, 65, 74, 75–79, 92

  Paris, 10, 73, 101, 104–111, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 114, 177, 181

  Trévières, 74, 75–79

  Verdun, 114, 152, 154, 155, 155, 158, 159

  France ’44 (Steg), 118

  France Has Some Pretty Sites (Sayles), 165

  Fuller, Buckminster, 235

  Garbage. See Residue

  Gawne, Jonathan, 19–20, 44, 45, 71, 114, 224, 227–228

  Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944–1945, 19

  Geary, Frank, 205

  Geisel, Theodore, 136

  George Martin (Seckel), 186

  German Defense Against Glider Invasion (Shilstone), 69

  Germany, 10, 44, 45, 47, 51, 58, 62, 64, 66, 70, 71, 73, 82, 89, 93, 96, 99, 101, 104, 110, 114, 115, 117, 118, 121, 124, 124, 136, 148–159, 149, 172, 180, 182, 190, 190–199, 198, 202, 202–207, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208–221, 215, 224, 228

  Trier, 202, 202, 203, 205, 215

  Germany (Harris), 204

  Ghost Army. See Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops

  Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944–1945 (Gawne), 19

  GI Bill, 107

  GI Sketching (Mack), 33

  Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 41

  Goossen, Eugene, 31

  Gorman, Charles, 85

  Greenberg, Barnett, 232

  Griswold, Bill, 107

  Guérende, Huguette, 107

  Guérende, Nicole, 107

  Gunner Onboard (Dowd), 56

  Haas, Eddie, 239

  Habay-la-Vieille, 177

  Habay-la-Vieille (Jarvie), 177

  Hapgood, John, 32, 79, 232

  Paul Gravey, 79

  Harford, Ray, 27, 27–28, 28, 29, 143

  Harris, Billy, 17, 18, 23, 38, 49, 71, 148, 224, 233

  Harris, Lulu, 18

  Harris, Ned, 26, 31, 33, 34, 57, 65, 65, 66, 66, 120, 127, 127, 159, 172–173, 174, 177–178, 178, 204, 208, 213, 233, 239

  Germany, 204

  Maria, 213

  On Our Way, 65

  Poor Little Farmhouse, 120

  Waiting Their Turn, 178

  Harvard University, 48

  Electro-Acoustic Laboratory, 48

  He Never Smiled (Dowd), 156

  Hey-- (Hovel), 104

  Hirohito, Emperor, 225

  Hitler, Adolf, 46, 62, 149, 190, 205, 206, 218

  Holocaust, 205

  Home Near Metz (Shilstone), 121

  Hooper, William D., 134

  Hoopes, Roy, 16

  Hornthal, Paul, 76

  Horyn, Cathy, 176

  Bare Blass, 176

  Hotchkiss, 16

  Hovel, Cleo, 100, 104, 107, 156, 161, 174, 233

  Belle of the Ball, 156

  Hey--, 104

  Paris, ’44, 107

  Somewhere in France, 100

  Sunday Letter, 161

  Huguette (Morton), 107

  Inflating Tank at Night (Shilstone), 57

  Ingersoll, Ralph, 16, 16–23, 38, 45, 49, 70–71, 89, 118, 136, 152, 154, 224, 233

  The Battle Is the Pay-Off, 17

  Fortune, 16

  Life, 16

  New Yorker, 16

  Operation Fortitude, 17, 58

  PM, 16–17

  Time, Inc., 16, 17

  Italy, 46

  Jackson, James, 239

  Jackson, Karl F., 41

  Japan, 221, 225

  Jarvie, John, 28, 67–68, 74, 84, 96, 99, 149, 149, 150, 174, 177, 177–178, 206–207, 207, 218, 225, 233, 239

  Breakout, 207

  Habay-la-Vieille, 177

  Johnston, Joseph E., 19

  Joseph, Chudzik, Displaced Polish Boy, Bitburg, Germany (Kelly), 210

  Kane, Art, 28, 155, 233, 233

  Kelly, Ellsworth, 13, 26, 31, 31, 39, 55, 98, 107, 178, 179, 179, 184, 210, 234, 234

  Briey, 1945, 184

  Joseph, Chudzik, Displaced Polish Boy, Bitburg, Germany, 210

  Normandy, June 1944, 98

  Self Portrait, Normandy, 234

  Soldier in Life Jacket, 55

  Young Soldiers Being Transported to the Front, Remagen, Courtyard, Chateau de Divonne, 179

  Kelper, John, 45

  Kennedy, Edward, 236

  Kilowatt Kommand, 44, 193

  Kronman, Mark, 224

  L. R. Moulton Drapery Company, 41

  La Hive, Paul, 140

  Landing in Normandy (Shilstone), 66

  Laynor, Harold, 28, 33, 100, 107, 180, 180, 181, 234

  Not Me Please, 180

  Lee, Robert E., 19

  Letter from His Fox Hole, A (Dowd), 163

  Letter, The (Arnett), 164

  Life, 16, 64

  London, 17, 49, 135

  Lowell Sun, 42

  Lux ’44 (Sayles), 128

  Luxembourg, 10, 82, 114–121, 124–137, 126, 127, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 138, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 166, 177, 218

  Bettembourg, 115–121

  Luxembourg City, 115, 124, 127, 129, 130, 133, 135, 138, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 218

  Luxembourg (Tompkins), 131

  Luxembourg (Zillmer), 132

  Luxembourg Bivouac (Dowd), 125

  Luxembourg City, 115, 124, 127, 129, 130, 133, 135, 138, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 218

  Luxembourg City (Vander Sluis), 129

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 224

  Discourses on Livy, 224

  Mack, Joseph (Joe), 13, 33, 50, 72, 162, 165, 235

  GI Sketching, 33

  Military Transport, 50

  Post-War Plan, 165

  Mail Call, 160, 161–169

  Making Dummy Land Mines (Vander Sluis), 40

  Malmedy, 124

  Maria (Harris), 213

  Martin, George, 22, 23, 26, 32, 84–85, 89, 125, 144, 186, 235

  Portrait, 32

  Masey, Jack, 28, 33–34, 35, 54, 57, 85, 101, 138, 139–145, 151–152, 154, 174, 177, 215–216, 225, 227, 235, 235, 239

  Robert A. George, 101

  You on K.P.!, 138, 139–145

  Mason, Bernie, 28, 62–63, 64, 125, 127, 133, 137, 152, 165, 227, 236

  Be My Valentine, 165

  May Day parade, 216, 216

  Mayer, Irving, 70, 155, 173, 236

  Premonition, 173

  McAuliffe, Anthony, 152, 154

  McGlynn, Helen, 236

  McGlynn, Jack, 47, 47, 86, 89, 206, 236, 236

  McNair, Leslie, 38

  Messina, Sebastian, 18, 85, 127, 225–226

  Metz, 114, 124, 125

  Metz (Shaw), 115

  Middleton, Troy, 99, 148

  Military Transport (Mack), 50

  Montgomery, Bernard Law, 190, 196

  Morse code, 20, 45

  Morton, Richard, 55, 107, 134, 136

  Convoy, 55

  Huguette, 107

  Moselle River, 202, 204, 205

  Mouldy Manor. See Walton Hall

  My Sleeping Bag (Arnett), 174

  Nance, Stanley, 44, 44, 45, 124, 193, 193, 225, 226, 236

  Nardiello, George, 239

  National Archives, 227

  National WWII Museum, 228


  NATO, 19

  Nazis, 46, 82, 85, 124, 136, 205. See also Germany; Hitler, Adolf

  NBC Radio, 83

  Near Metz (Vander Sluis), 120

  New Recruit (Arnett), 26

  New York High School of Music and Art, 28

  New York Times, 16, 46, 176, 226

  New York Times Magazine, 227

  New Yorker, 16

  Newsweek, 226

  Ninth Army, 190, 193, 196, 197, 198, 199

  Normandy, 11, 17, 58, 62–73, 63, 65, 74, 75–79, 92

  Normandy ’44 (Sayles), 69

  Normandy invasion, 62–73, 63, 65, 66

  Omaha Beach, 62, 63

  Utah Beach, 65–66, 66

  Normandy, June 1944 (Kelly), 98

  North Africa, 17, 19, 44

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). See NATO

  Not Me Please (Laynor), 180

  Notre Dame, 107, 110

  Notre Dame (Singer), 111

  Official History of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops (Fox), 221

  Old Blood and Guts. See Patton, George

  Old Man, The (Dowd), 209

  Olga (Steg), 212

  Omaha Beach, 62, 63

  On Our Own Time, 174

  On Our Way (Harris), 65

  Operation Bettembourg, 10, 115–121, 116

  Operation Bouzonville, 180–181, 190

  Operation Brest, 92–93, 94, 95, 96, 99, 100

  Operation Brittany, 70–71, 73, 85

  Operation Cobra, 70

  Operation Elephant, 66–68

  Operation Fortitude, 17, 58

  Operation Koblenz, 148–159

  Operation Kodak, 153, 154

  Operation Viersen, 190–199, 191, 192, 194, 224

  Paint Spray Equipment (Vander Sluis), 40

  Paris, 10, 73, 101, 104–111, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 114, 177, 181

  Paris, ’44 (Hovel), 107

  Park, Edwards, 228

  Parsons School of Design, 28

  Pastorcich, Marion, 219

  Patten, Fred, 41

  Patton, George, 10, 11, 17, 58, 70–71, 71, 100, 110, 114, 121, 152, 154

  Paul Gravey (Hapgood), 79

  Peddle, George, 181

  Peeling Potatoes with Two Russian Girls (Dowd), 217

  Pentagon, 17, 227

  Picasso, Pablo, 107, 181

  Pine Camp, 20, 39, 46

  Place Vendôme, 107

  PM, 16–17

  Polk, James (Jimmy), 114, 121

  poop sheets, 87–88

  Poor Little Farmhouse (Harris), 120

  Portrait (Martin), 32

  Post-War Plan (Mack), 165

  Pratt Institute, 26, 27, 28

  Premonition (Mayer), 173

  Prickett, Fay, 149

  Princeton University, 83, 227

  Put the Top Down! (Arnett), 118

  Putnam, Hannah, 221

  Quick Nap (Young), 32

  radio, 20, 42, 44–45, 48, 51, 66, 71, 93, 95, 115, 117, 119, 124, 125, 148, 152, 154, 154, 192, 193, 195. See also sonics

  Railey, Hilton Howell, 46–47, 47, 49, 236

  Touched with Madness, 46

  Ramcke, Hermann-Bernhard, 93, 96

  Rankine, Terry, 235

  Rebh, George, 19, 20, 45, 45, 86, 149, 236

  Reeder, Harry L., 20, 38, 38, 39, 68, 100, 133, 148, 149, 236

  refugees, 70. See also displaced persons

  Reilly, John J., 230

  Residue, 65

  Ricard, Theresa, 41, 41–42

  Riggs, Otis, 239

  Robert A. George (Masey), 101

  Robinson, Thomas, 45

  Roche, Tom, 239

  Rommel’s asparagus, 69

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 17, 135

  Sagging Gun at Sunrise (Shilstone), 97

  Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, 104, 108, 108, 109

  Sak as Sophie Tucker (Vander Sluis), 137

  Sayles, William (Bill), 26, 59, 69, 83, 104, 128, 137, 138, 165, 176, 205, 217, 217, 218, 237, 237, 239

  All the Creatures, 237

  Bristol, U.K., 59

  Café de l’Est, 83

  France Has Some Pretty Sites, 165

  Lux ’44, 128

  Normandy ’44, 69

  The Studio, 218

  Wittlich, Germany, 217

  Scranton Lace Curtain Manufacturing Company, 41

  Seale, Oscar, 85, 118, 237

  Searcy, Cyrus, 96

  Seckel, Paul, 142, 164, 186, 237

  George Martin, 186

  Soldier Reading, 164

  Second Armored Division, 66

  Self Portrait, Normandy (Kelly), 234

  Self-Portrait (Singer), 175

  Seltzer, Gil, 34, 67, 125, 215, 237, 237

  Senat, Buzz, 215

  Sentry (Vander Sluis), 177

  Seventy-Fifth Infantry Division, 83–84

  Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 54

  Shaw, Alvin, 115, 202, 237

  Metz, 115

  Trier, 202

  Shilstone, Arthur, 28, 33, 34, 57, 65–66, 66, 67, 68, 69, 96, 97, 110, 117, 121, 125, 172, 179, 180, 221, 228, 237

  The Americans Are Very Strong!, 67

  German Defense Against Glider Invasion, 69

  Home Near Metz, 121

  Inflating Tank at Night, 57

  Landing in Normandy, 66

  Sagging Gun at Sunrise, 97

  Sniper Lookout, 96

  Special Effects, 117

  Signal Company Special, 20, 42, 44–45, 118, 119, 225

  Simenson, Clifford, 38–39, 85, 99, 118, 121, 237

  Simpson, William, 198, 199

  Singer, Arthur, 13, 28, 29, 56, 77, 78, 111, 125, 159, 173, 174, 175, 185, 203, 238, 238

  Briey, 173, 185

  Common Loons in the Mist, 238

  Convoy, 56

  Drying Gear, 125

  Notre Dame, 111

  Self-Portrait, 175

  Trévières Church, 77

  Trévières Church, Exterior, 78

  Trier, 203

  Sisters, Polish, The (Dowd), 156

  Sixth Armored Division, 10, 82, 99, 114, 117, 118

  Small Cognac, A (Boccia), 84

  Smithsonian, 228

  Sniper Lookout (Shilstone), 96

  Soldier in Life Jacket (Kelly), 55

  Soldier Reading (Seckel), 164

  Somewhere in France (Hovel), 100

  Sonic Company Special. See 3132 Signal Service Company Special

  sonics, 19, 20, 39, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 59, 65, 66, 82, 93, 93, 95, 96, 115, 117, 124–125, 148, 180, 195, 226

  SPAM, 57

  Spang, Karl, 70–71

  Special Effects (Shilstone), 117

  Spence, Joseph (Joe), 57, 181, 187, 238

  Briey, France ’45, 187

  Spontaneous Expressions, 174

  spoof radio, 20. See also radio

  Spy Smasher, 28

  Stalin, Joseph, 17, 216

  Stars and Stripes, 158

  Steg, James, 35, 118, 174, 212, 238

  France ’44, 118

  Olga, 212

  Stempel, Irving, 51, 64, 150, 178, 238

  Stewart, Jimmy, 83

  Studio, The (Sayles), 218

  Sunday Letter (Hovel), 161

  Switzer, Gil, 205

  Syracuse, Dick, 13, 46–47, 84, 85, 86, 101, 104, 117, 117, 238

  Taffy, David, 205

  Tenth Mountain Division, 27

  Thetford Maneuver Area, 57

  Third Cavalry Group (Mechanized), 114

  Third United States Army Group, 70, 100, 110, 114, 152, 154

  Thirty-First Infantry Division, 44

  Thirty-Seventh Field Artillery Battalion, 96

  Time, Inc., 16, 17

  To My Friend Belisario, Who Should Have Known Better (Williams), 175

  Tompkins, Bob, 10, 54, 79, 84, 92, 92, 93, 95–96, 99, 107, 115, 121, 121, 125, 125, 127, 131, 133, 135, 137, 151, 155, 158, 176, 179, 181, 183, 195, 197, 206, 207, 215, 218, 221, 239
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  Briey, March ’45, 183

  Church Steeple, 79

  Luxembourg, 131

  Torcé, 100

  Touched with Madness (Railey), 46

  Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 108

  Trévières, 74, 75–79

  Trévières Church (Singer), 77

  Trévières Church, Exterior (Singer), 78

  Trier, 202, 202, 203, 205, 215

  Trier (Shaw), 202

  Trier (Singer), 203

  Trojan Horse, 19

  Truly, Merrick, 190

  Twelfth United States Army Group, 23, 70, 89, 152, 224

  Special Plans Branch, 23, 38, 45, 49, 118, 148, 224

  Twenty-First Army Group, 190

  Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, 11, 12, 13, 18, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 38, 51, 66, 69, 85, 86, 93, 105, 106, 119, 150, 156, 161–169, 172, 199

  244th Signal Company, 20, 42

  3132 Signal Service Company Special, 20, 46, 47, 51, 110, 118, 119

  3133 Signal Service Company Special, 46

  406th Engineer Combat Special, 20, 45, 58, 64, 68, 85, 86, 101, 117, 149, 152, 178

  603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion Special, 20, 23, 26–34, 30, 31, 39, 42, 51, 54, 57–59, 62–63, 67, 101, 125, 136, 138–145, 139–145, 149, 150, 155, 157, 174, 218, 230

  art boys, 26–34, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 68, 69, 101, 104–111, 127, 136, 138, 139–145, 160, 161–169, 174–178, 182, 183–187, 202, 202–207, 203, 205, 208, 209–213

  Bradley, Omar, 23, 70, 152, 154

  Briey, 174, 181, 182, 183–187

  camouflage, 20, 26–34, 30, 31, 39, 39, 64, 64, 95, 125, 193

  cartoons, 27, 28, 133, 134

  deception, 18–19, 20, 23, 38, 39–51, 48, 57–59, 66–68, 70–71, 73, 82–89, 85, 86, 87–88, 93, 93, 95–96, 99, 100, 110, 114–121, 117, 119, 124, 124–137, 148–159, 172, 174, 180–181, 190–199, 192, 224, 228

  Devers, Jake, 19–20

  displaced persons, 205–207, 206, 207, 208–221, 209–213, 214, 216

  dummy weaponry, 18, 19, 20, 38, 39, 40, 41, 41, 42, 42, 43, 57, 57–59, 58, 62, 64, 64, 66–68, 71, 95, 96, 97, 115, 117, 148–149, 152, 180–181, 193, 194, 195, 195, 196

  France, 74, 75–79, 82–89, 104–111, 172–174, 182, 183–187

  Germany, 148–159, 190–199, 202–207, 208–221, 217

  going home, 221

  Harris, Billy, 17, 18, 23, 38, 49, 71, 148, 224, 233

  Ingersoll, Ralph, 16, 16–23, 38, 45, 49, 70–71, 89, 118, 136, 152, 154, 224, 233

  Luxembourg, 124–137

  Mail Call, 160, 161–169

  in media, 225–226

  Operation Bettembourg, 10, 115–121, 116

  Operation Bouzonville, 180–181, 190

  Operation Brest, 92–93, 94, 95, 96, 99, 100

  Operation Brittany, 70–71, 73, 85

 

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