Title from container. "HD." "Light." Previously released by Brilliance Publishing, ℗2019. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. Performed by Ron Butler.
Summary:
"Paul B. Janeczko focuses on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically pose as real fighting units. Their mission was to deceive the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even if the sights and sounds of war machines and troops were all fabricated. Follow the Twenty-Third into Europe as they play a dangerous game, using sonic deceptions, inflatable tanks, pyrotechnics, and camouflage in more than twenty operations to fool the German army into making battlefield mistakes. 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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