Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was scheduled to host the three members of the Ghost Army for the ceremony at the Capitol, more than 75 years after they served. The group carried out 25 different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawmakers participate in the Congressional Gold Medal presentation ceremony Thursday honoring the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops ...

Members of the World War II “Ghost Army” received Congress’ highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, at a ceremony on Thursday. The “Ghost Army” earned its name during the Allied advance into ...

During World War II, the Allies used everything at their disposal to defeat the Axis powers, including a lot of trickery. One of the best examples? The Ghost Army units: groups of soldiers armed with ...

The Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest honor, is being awarded to the Ghost Army, a secretive American military unit from World War II. This recognition comes after the unit's decades-long ...

With inflatable tanks, radio trickery, costume uniforms and acting, the American military units that became known as the Ghost Army outwitted the enemy during World War II. Their mission was kept ...

It wasn’t until 1996, more than five decades after its successful efforts during WWII, that information regarding the existence of a secretive Ghost Army was made known to the public. The late Marion ...

For more than a half-century, Hoffman Estates resident Bernard Bluestein’s World War II heroism was a military secret. But on Thursday, the service of Bluestein and two other surviving members of the ...

They were painters, actors, and sound engineers — not soldiers. But in 1944, the U.S. Army’s “Ghost Army” created entire fake divisions using inflatable tanks, fake radios, and recorded battle sounds ...

Three of the seven known surviving members of a secret group during World War II are set to accept Congressional Gold Medals on Thursday. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will host the three members of ...