Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dummy armoured car used by the 'Ghost Army' Whenever family members asked 100-year-old Seymour Nussenbaum what part he played in ...
On March 21, at the U.S. Capitol, a bygone company of American soldiers, most of whom are long dead, will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the country’s highest honors, in appreciation ...
Congress this week will bestow its highest civilian honor – the Congressional Gold Medal – on men who have been called combat con artists. They’re the soldiers of a long-secret unit known as the ...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill into law that awards the Congressional Gold Medal to a top-secret US Army unit that used deceptive tactics like inflatable tanks, fake radio transmissions ...
He was one of the last survivors of a band of Army con artists who duped German forces with their arsenal of fakery, including inflatable tanks and scripted radio transmissions. By Richard Sandomir ...
An unidentified member of the “Ghost Army” with an inflatable tank used to fool enemy forces in World War II. (National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) For five decades—from his discharge from the U.S.