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03282aam a2200481 i 4500 001 10EF7CF8EA5A11E9BC4B452C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191009010012 008 181012s2019 mauab b 001 0deng 010 $a 2018961335 020 $a 0763681539 020 $a 9780763681531 035 $a (OCoLC)1047618243 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d XY4 $d GRN $d UAP $d OCLCF $d OEL $d TCH $d HQD $d ILC $d XRQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Janeczko, Paul B. 245 10 $a Secret soldiers : $b how the U.S. twenty-third special troops fooled the Nazis / $c Paul B. Janeczko. 246 30 $a How the U.S. twenty-third special troops fooled the Nazis 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Somerville, Massachusetts : $b Candlewick Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 294 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-283) and index. 505 0 $a The Ghost Army is born -- Recruitment and training -- Shipping out...and more waiting -- The Twenty-Third gets into action -- The first big test -- A trio of deceptions -- A deadly winter -- After the Battle of the Bulge -- The final deception. 520 $a "In his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This remarkable unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically replace fighting units -- fooling the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated. Follow the Twenty-Third into Europe as they play a dangerous game of enticing the German army into making battlefield mistakes by using sonic deceptions, inflatable tanks, pyrotechnics, and camouflage in more than twenty operations. From the Normandy invasion to the crossing of the Rhine River, the men of the Ghost Army -- several of whom went on to become famous artists and designers after the war -- played an improbable role in the Allied victory."-- $c Jacket flap. 610 10 $a United States. $b Headquarters Special Troops, 23rd $b Headquarters Special Troops, 23rd $x History. 610 10 $a United States. $b Engineer Camouflage Battalion, 603rd $b Engineer Camouflage Battalion, 603rd $x History. 610 10 $a United States. $b Combat Engineers, 406th $b Combat Engineers, 406th $x History. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Deception. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Western Front. 650 0 $a Deception (Military science) 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Regimental histories $z United States. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $v Biography. 941 $a 9 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305021101.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201015306.0 952 $l UPAX334 $d 20230104040618.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024620.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20201003011145.0 952 $l ZOPC437 $d 20200507125944.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20200409011241.0 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20191203011340.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20191009010337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=10EF7CF8EA5A11E9BC4B452C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search