The Ghost Army -- comprised of 1,300 U.S. soldiers -- helped trick the Third Reich with deceptive battlefield shenanigans that protected their fellow Americans and helped defeat Nazi Germany.

March 21 (UPI) --Sworn to secrecy for eight decades, the last surviving members of America's fabled "Ghost Army" finally got their recognition Thursday with the Congressional Gold Medal.

The daring rescue of 500 US "ghost" soldiers from a Japanese POW camp in Cabanatuan. They thought they'd been forgotten until a carefully planned raid freed them from brutality.

The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the West Bank on January 21 aimed at rooting out Palestinian armed groups ...