Ghost Army Research Paper

Ghost Army

No one would've guessed actors could turn a war around and win. actors artists and designers all were recruited during the war for a job barely anyone knew about. Actors artists and designers all were recruited during the war for a job barely anyone knew about.

During world war 2 a project began to make an army of fake soldiers to fool hitler into thinking the american army was larger than it really was (“Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler” 1). The army started recruiting soldiers for this secret army but they weren't trained soldiers instead they were artists, actors, designers and other students from art schools and agencies (“Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler” 1). In these armies the artists

The purpose of all this is to trick hitler and cause him to react to illusions created by the ghost army and not notice the real armies in different places (“Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler” 2). Before these people would embark on their artistic journeys they would be known for serving in world war 2 (“Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler” 2). One job these men and women would do is create disguises to make them look like high ranking officers in the army, and the actors would wear these disguises in public where enemy spies would most likely be and give them fake information about the allies The artists would make and fill inflatable tanks to look like real ones and set them up where the enemies would see them to look like the allies were moving to set up in that location and the germans would set up to counter the attack that would never happen (“Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler” 3).. Another job that these people would do to trick hitler was to set up fake radio broadcasts between the allied forces that the germans could easily tap into and listen to the false information the actors on the radios were giving (“Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler” 3). The illusions set up my these actors