Splash Biography

During the latter half of WWII, a group of painters, designers, sculptors, and audio producers were gathered together for a secret project funded by the US Army. These men were recruited to use their artistic abilities to create the world's first "ghost army" - a battalion of inflatable tanks, dummy artillery, and sound bytes of a regiment on the move. All of this was a dream of army captains who believed that they could fool the enemy into thinking the Allies had more men than they did. Despite its seemingly ludicrous and sometimes impossible purpose, this Ghost Army ran over 25 successful missions and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. In this class, we'll examine the men who ran the mission as well as the pretty badass inventions and ideas they spawned to fool the Nazis.