They have amazing webpage. Your find tones of infomation https://www.nationalww2museum.org
It is emotional and hard to do the justuse this post should have. I learned a lot and will try my best to give the respect on honer this post should have. All I can do is the best I can and hope its enough.
So it has been long time since I was there so most likely will get stuff out of order, for that I apologies. I don't want to post to much so when you go you will still have that surprised as I did when I first walked throw.
wahen I was there they had two Special Exhibit going on.
First Special Exhibit I saw was. Remembered Light: Glass Fragments from World War II
25 art pieces made up of shards of glass from damaged and destroyed European churches collected during World War II by the late US Army Episcopal chaplain Frederick McDonald.
Each piece includes a transcript from McDonald’s memory of the specific location and events related to it. The artists used McDonald’s notes from World War II, his recollections after the war, and their own research to create the original artworks. The scenes memorialized in the pieces speak directly to the origin of the shards—bombings in England, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
Here are some of the pieces:
The secnond Special Exhibit : Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II
January 20, 1944, the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the “Ghost Army,” was the first mobile, multimedia, tactical deception unit in US Army history.
This unique and top-secret unit was capable of simulating two whole divisions—approximately 30,000 men—and used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces during World War II’s final year.
Many West Point graduates and former Army Specialized Training Program participants were assigned to the 23rd, and it was said to have one of the highest IQs in the Army with an average of 119. The unit waged war with inflatable tanks and vehicles, fake radio traffic, sound effects, and even phony generals, using imagination and illusion to trick the enemy while saving thousands of lives along the way. The 23rd, along with the 3133rd Signal Service Company in Italy, helped liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi tyranny.
The unit’s soldiers were sworn to secrecy, records were classified, and equipment packed away. Except for a newspaper article right after the war, no one spoke publicly about the deceivers until a 1985 Smithsonian article. Though knowledge of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was then public, it was still officially classified until the mid-1990s.
Now Im just going to randomly post photos.
Please go to this Museum, they have volunteers there that served in the military and who knows you might get the honer to meet, talk to a vet from this war. Hope this sparked interest from the photos.
Thank you off to next blog post.
