If you're speaking about the units soldiers themselves thats not entirely true, it was a dangerous job and they suffered casualties like everyone else.
From the article
"In March 1945, they put on a dazzling deception along the Rhine River, their biggest ever, Operation Viersen drew the enemy away from a real crossing by the 9th Army. They succeeded in fooling the Germans about when the 9th US Army would cross the Rhine, and are credited with saving thousands of lives in the bargain. It earned them a commendation from 9th Army commander William Simpson. Three Ghost Army soldiers were killed and dozens wounded carrying out their missions.
The details of the story remained classified until 1996. Thirty years after the war, when the details of their story were still being kept secret, a United States Army analyst who studied their missions came away deeply impressed with the impact of their illusions. “Rarely, if ever, has there been a group of such a few men which had so great an influence on the outcome of a major military campaign."
My post wasn't ment to argue who suffered the most casualties or the backgrounds of the men but more about the deception of the battlefield. It's generally pretty accepted the front lines are always the most severely hit. Assuming you're correct, Im sure setting up, pulling of an illusion, disassembling, and hauling this stuff around battlefields wasn't exactly a desk job.
They wrote it and made themselves look good. I doubt anyone wasted time evaluating it much. As you can tell,I'm no longer a fan of this unit. Their is too much fukery going on, and they are set up to do it.
Always a possibility but I think I understand your thought process better now. My perspective currently is pretty much all of this is orchestrated theatrics for the general public but I maybe partial to that from listening to the guys over at Eye of the Storm. The comm decodes for some of the recent PsyOps lean me towards premeditation from the WHs.
If you're speaking about the units soldiers themselves thats not entirely true, it was a dangerous job and they suffered casualties like everyone else.
From the article
"In March 1945, they put on a dazzling deception along the Rhine River, their biggest ever, Operation Viersen drew the enemy away from a real crossing by the 9th Army. They succeeded in fooling the Germans about when the 9th US Army would cross the Rhine, and are credited with saving thousands of lives in the bargain. It earned them a commendation from 9th Army commander William Simpson. Three Ghost Army soldiers were killed and dozens wounded carrying out their missions.
The details of the story remained classified until 1996. Thirty years after the war, when the details of their story were still being kept secret, a United States Army analyst who studied their missions came away deeply impressed with the impact of their illusions. “Rarely, if ever, has there been a group of such a few men which had so great an influence on the outcome of a major military campaign."
They didn't have the casualties of a front line unit.
Kids of,wealth,parrents get patriotic and volunteer for the army and their parrents are burning up the phone lines to "their" senator the next day.
My post wasn't ment to argue who suffered the most casualties or the backgrounds of the men but more about the deception of the battlefield. It's generally pretty accepted the front lines are always the most severely hit. Assuming you're correct, Im sure setting up, pulling of an illusion, disassembling, and hauling this stuff around battlefields wasn't exactly a desk job.
Their history reads like propaganda to me.
They wrote it and made themselves look good. I doubt anyone wasted time evaluating it much. As you can tell,I'm no longer a fan of this unit. Their is too much fukery going on, and they are set up to do it.
Always a possibility but I think I understand your thought process better now. My perspective currently is pretty much all of this is orchestrated theatrics for the general public but I maybe partial to that from listening to the guys over at Eye of the Storm. The comm decodes for some of the recent PsyOps lean me towards premeditation from the WHs.
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