Blass, reminisced. Our identity was kept secret for the simple reason that we were posing as other Allied troops in order to fool the enemy.… [We were] pretending to be Patton’s armor, the Fifteenth Tank Battalion. Except, that instead of Shermans, we had rubber ones that we inflated at night and left in his same tank tracks. We even had ways of faking tank fire and noise, which the men in the sonic unit blasted all night long at the Germans. So when Von Ramcke looked the next morning through the haze and battle smoke with his field glasses, he thought he was seeing Patton’s forces. In a
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