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While conventional military units required substantial logistics—entire convoys and rail transport—to mobilize their heavy gear, this covert group utilized an extraordinary tactic: they concealed their military hardware in canvas bags, allowing them a form of stealth previously unseen on the battlefield.
The Birth of the Ghost Army
As preparations ramped up for D-Day, the Allied command orchestrated an enormous military buildup of over a million troops, tens of thousands of vehicles, and an overwhelming amount of supplies. However, among this immense force operated a unique unit whose mission was unlike that of any other: to employ creativity and deception as its primary weapons.