{"id":86977,"date":"2019-05-14T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86977"},"modified":"2019-05-14T07:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:05:50","slug":"a-medal-for-the-ghost-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86977","title":{"rendered":"A Medal for the Ghost Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-70163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-500x309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s Ghost Army of World War II is being put up for a Congressional Gold Medal.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost Army consisted of two units, the 23rd Special Headquarters Troops and the 3133rd Signal Service Company. They created realistic tanks, vehicles like Jeeps and troop carriers, and airplanes, to fool the Germans into believing that there was a huge deployment in one place while Patton was busy engaging German defenses elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The story is here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/05\/13\/renewed-push-to-award-gold-medal-to-world-war-ii-ghost-army\/\">https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/05\/13\/renewed-push-to-award-gold-medal-to-world-war-ii-ghost-army\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also a video, so pop some popcorn and enjoy a brief trip through history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Ghost Army of World War II is being put up for a Congressional Gold &hellip; <a title=\"A Medal for the Ghost Army\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86977\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Medal for the Ghost Army<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86978,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86977\/revisions\/86978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}