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THEY WEREN’T YOUR TYPICAL SOLDIERS. They were actors, artists, stagehands, and advertising men. Most of all, they were tricksters who used inflatable tanks, fake radio transmissions, and bombastic music to mislead and misdirect the Germans about the strength and whereabouts of Allied forces.