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The unit Phantom allowed on the last thread. There story is incredible in a hilarious way, almost sounding like something out of Hogan's Heroes

During WWII, the US army decided to try out this idea of having a divison focused on confusing the German Intelligence by making them think that there were army units in places that there were none; recruited from artists, engineers, architects, and the like (so one way a pre-serum Steve Rogers could have gotten into the army). One group focused on visual camoflage by having inflatable tanks, fake runways for plans, fake tank tracks, inflatable gun turrents, etc. Another focused on sound camoflage by playing combinations of the needed sounds from pre-record disc sound records. A third group copied the radio styles of whatever divison they were emulating that week and gave fake orders and chatter for the Germans to overhear. In additon to that, the groups would also make their own outfits with the correct insignias to match whatever division then act like the members of that divison whenever they were in towns, ranging from the privates to the generals.

And the whole thing was a absolute success!! The Germans were completely fooled by the trickery (though they unfortunately also fooled one of the US divsions as well and got them killed before the divsion could get out of the area) from the D-day invasion when two of the divisions first started operation to the final days of the war.

There's a documentary about them on amazon prime and more info on the wikipedia page.