In March 1945, a vast army of American tanks, trucks, and troop carriers staged on the edge of the Rhine. As the Americans conspicuously arranged their vehicles and equipment along the last major geographical obstacle between the Allied advance and Berlin, the German defenders took notice. They scrambled to rearrange their defenses and engaged the fleet of tanks before them. But the army of American vehicles they were shooting at didn’t actually exist. What the Germans saw was a formation of inflatable tanks and trucks — a “Ghost Army.”

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