How The Allies Used A Ghost Army To Fool The Nazis And Win World War II
In 1944 the Allies used a “Ghost Army” of inflatable tanks and personnel carriers to fool German recon missions. A smattering of British tommies on maneuvers at Salisbury Plain hoist an enormous army tank on their shoulders and move it to another part of the “ battleground . ” A Herculean feat ? Well , not exactly : The tank is only inflated rubber , one of the several dummy weapons skillfully deployed to baffle the enemy ....