‘Ghost Army’ GI Heroes Who Fooled Hitler with Inflatable Tanks, Fake Radio Broadcasts and Phony Uniforms Get the Highest Congressional Honor, 78 Years After They Helped Win the Second World War…

by Jon Michael Raasch at Daily Mail

• Speaker Mike Johnson awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to three WWII veterans of the ‘Ghost Army’ on Thursday
• There are only seven members of the unit still alive today
• Johnson was joined by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at the ceremony  

Lawmakers awarded several 100-year-old WWII veterans that served in the secretive Ghost Army the Congressional 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 created by the Ghost Army was a farce that included simulated radio chatter and fake troop movements.

The unit was comprised of artists, engineers and soldiers all tasked with creating large-scale deception missions.

At Thursday’s ceremony, three members of the Ghost Army were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal – the highest honor bestowed by the body – for their service decades ago.

‘I’m truly honored to officiate this gold medal ceremony and to celebrate these incredibly brave American heroes who serve as a model for all the rest of us,’ Speaker Johnson said at the ceremony…