Ghost Army Research Paper

Ghost Army: The Army Made of Rubber Countries have armies to fight during the war due to conflicts between them. Within armies there are smaller units with their own special job. One very important unit is The Ghost Army. The Ghost Army explored, encountering and exchanged ideas with each other to help better the units teamwork and broaden their idea to effectively change the way that America uses deception and other war tactics today. Before the Ghost Army was enacted, WWII was at a high. The Nazis were terrorizing many people and it was a fight between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. America was not in the war until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Bombed us and we had no choice
but to fight back. We then joined the war and fought to put an end to the reign of terror that the Germans and Japanese were casting upon the rest of the world. A mix between the generals of the army and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to create a secret unit that would stage missions from Normandy to the Rhine River. (ghost army.org) The Ghost Armies main purpose was to trick the Germans into thinking false military operations were in action. The Ghost army was an amazing deception unit that changed the way we use deception and helped us win the war. America decided to create a secret unit in WWII and that secret unit fought the war in interesting ways.The ghost army was a unit made up of talented artists who drew what they saw.
There is a fairly famous painting that one of the soldiers drew that depicted two French Cyclists that accidentally crossed into a restricted area. In that area there were four American soldiers lifting what the cyclists thought was a four ton Sherman tank. What they really saw was Americans lifting an inflatable tank that was about 90 lbs.(smithsoniamag.com) Rubber was the Ghost Armies main weapon. They used rubber for fake tanks, people, artillery launchers, and other armored vehicles and weaponry. Along with rubber the ghost army used real tanks and bulldozers to create fake tank tracks to make it look as if dozens of tanks were rolling around when really one vehicle made a bunch of tracks. Then they would surgically place the fake tank at the end of the tracks and it looked very convincing. The next main thing that the unit used was sound or sonic warfare. The unit would have these enormous speakers with a sound range of 15 miles that projected sounds like tanks moving and people working. The speakers would be attached to armored vehicles. When all their tricks and deception were synthesized together they would create an extremely convincing mirage. (The ghost
army,Beyer) The Ghost Army is a an important part of history. The ghost army allowed us to come up with new ways of deceiving with deception during the war. Along with that the ghost army just overall helped us win the war. Since the ghost army was a secret unit many people didn't know about them, hence being a secret unit, and because of that they didn't get the credit they deserve. Their impact on the war was very large however. Without them we might not have won the war and if we didn't win the war think about this, Hitler kills everyone who is not a certain ethnicity we are all under the control of one supreme country. That is a horrible world that nobody would want to live in. The Ghost Army exchanged,explored, and encountered new ways to deceive and trick during the war. Even though they didn’t fight in the most traditional ways they still made a huge impact. The ghost army is a very important unit during WWII that fought the war with rubber.