General George Patton fielded a historic first: an entire phony army to fool the Germans in the 1944 Normandy Invasion. The elaborate deception even included counterfeit insignia for fake army units. Read more about Patton’s smoke-and-mirrors First US Army Group here.
![]() Fourteenth Army (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() XXXI Corps (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() XXXIII Corps (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() 6th Airborne Division (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() 9th Airborne Division (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() 18th Airborne Division (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() 21st Airborne Division (The Ramkas Collection) |
![]() 135th Airborne Division (The Ramkas Collection) |
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