Lawmakers awarded several 100-year-old veterans that served in the secretive Ghost Army the Gold Medal Thursday, celebrating their intelligence operations against the Nazis nearly 80 years earlier.The Ghost Army is credited as being one of the first mobile tactical deceptive Army units. The group created a mirage army that often appeared to the Nazis as a massive force of up to 40,000 troops, tanks and aircraft.Unbeknownst to the Axis forces at the time, the battalion was a farce that included simulated radio chatter and fake troop movements.
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