The Ghost Army Exhibit

We are sorry you missed the Ghost Army Exhibit sponsored by the University of Michigan Library. The exhibit does live on as a traveling exhibit. For more information about the exhibit and future exhibit sites, see The Ghost Army website sponsored by Plate of Peas Productions.

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The Ghost Army was here! In June of 1944, an exceptional U.S. Army unit went into action in Normandy. Its weapons included hundreds of inflatable tanks and a one-of-a-kind collection of sound effects records, and it carried out its battlefield mission without firing a shot. The unit was officially called the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, but it was known to its men as The Ghost Army.

Members of The Ghost Army adhered to a decades-long gag order; many never told their families about their extraordinary military service. Sixty-five years after this top-secret group went into action, the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Library unveiled the first public exhibit of this captivating group of materials documenting The Ghost Army.