The Ghost Army of World War II
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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