Show MYTHICAL X ARMY HELPED WIN VICTORY american subalterns Subal terns trick kept five german divisions on the qui vivo vive ENEMY DECEIVED BY RADIO telephone squad also alao conducted mis leading conversation cleverest for go grman lartener in alt benefit staff worked overtime on gama gain of camouflage with the american am iran forces in n G ger many tricks of the game of war or are 11 owning coming to light from fir time to time us eich each side 1 I its ita story one of at the most meet successful ful of them was THIS practiced b by Y american fare forces 1 in the me a AT efell g gonne a be battle in last fall when the last great allied offensive a as at 1 its height bet ht from fm switzerland to the sea an am int imaginary glory army ex conceived loed by a handful of american ennior officers was ahm thrown n into the told field overnight and for days five clack ciack german ill at alons just east of verdun N in tile the etala deml region coal we were kept on their toes imas momentarily expecting an attack which never clinic at a dinner tell table 1 in a cubler cafe morlo overlooking oling the rhine an american 1 in officer meet recently early told the story of the creation of the mythical X army anny as it va anns called it up bents that the germans were expect lag ing an at attack ack in the edaa sector at any time rod and the americans knew anew it but ut at that stage ot of the fear elm the live first ame american r ran army was devoting he I 1 oner euer glen to driving the enemy out of the argonne forest and the hill bill country on either old side so the myth mythical imil army was created in preference prete reme to n real ill aher flon blon requiring many men me to convince the german em mande that it would world not be w wie to weak weaken the main front tor far the benefit ot of the movi Meuse Argonne front commanded by cartel captain five fresh freh dill divisions had bill bu been p placed it ill bv the germans US on the E etain in line these constituted their last and ad finest arlet ml reservoir all of available albi cupic cup divisions ii th the americans american real realized led that the minute out the germans go decided that this Is was we not as a danger point any or all 11 of ill the the e avista dV divisions ista coald aid be withdrawn replaced to it by exhausted and ad fragmentary divisions bmw coming g tr the battle fr fronts and ad that ill the appearance PP of the fresh troops in 1 the line it west of if tile alie vense mouse would have bale a tremendous effet effect on an the abera offensive th the ax X always briny was assigned to front f from baim u to I 1 acsa from the morning rig ot of october 23 22 until just jun before the armistice this ATTRY army functioned capt diaries charles if matz mate of holland woods wood ill III we was command ad or er in chief copt capt william H dear that den of if springfield mass and ad won wash ington D C was chief of staff aloft blout job john if graham of va an a chief of troop procip movements capt 0 W geldert wa was I 1 in charge of I 1 G gl 1 or administration and lear JEL T griswold of old lann co conn we was chief of tiller tile the naff of the X were all antel of the to iu aellig tellig 1 I of the first briny my and of course bafo before to beginning arimes had obtained the consent of their chief cut col will walley howell it ell the wireless and the telephone were nove firlie used to convince the germans that the americans Arll ll we were prepared for far I 1 an stuck attach in the be ernie sector to make sure that the germans would be able to brook break let into the code do used the A e Us furnished thiera w with ith a rim set satisfactory kc kev functioned until end one at w irel cs station of the yf ormy army 1 via nas in a dump clump of woods wood near ilear verdun verde and ad was called headquarters headquarter of the X nev this nation until tit the and it of the all ordwa l tor III uie the army going 0 out u from this place by wireless soon after f t in the at t in began working the German fl located be U rh whereabouts beat and it frequently whorled the it nail 6 vt ri apparently 1 la hope of breaking up the radio met of the latest of annoy boom the X a tiny army also alo had a port babut abl radio station which moved about and a represented pro led itself at a different station tyer day W two too th alie first message eg from firm the X dl arm v tw headquarters was a g general auml dispatch to nil all wireless stations nations in the real area none of which actually ex isted led in alie new ites code ad of course directing that none of the stations nation answer awer or imade use of ther their sending in for fear of the enemy army local ing in g them t but that they be on an the tn ne alert rt at fixed hours t to receive mes me seem the effect nal BBS L to con convince loc the germans that a large number of wireless ill tattoo stations had bad been set ant vp up and ad to advise them of the hours boom when the OR en way my intercepting actions should bould be on a the mart alert for the american mes 1191 this thia was followed ill by a series aarlea of messages designed to indicate that the X N army u a a as preparing for far a full fall n edged operation 1 in order to inform the enemy of the geographical limits limit of the sector ter of the X army ninny many messages mess ases eo were di directed eted to 1 imaginary officers a at mist existing Us towns plans OR on the stem etain front wireless clesi works night and day meanwhile the roving hallm wireless at eta tion was wa working oraline ort line do dai and right night it began sending out wel ables ITT in the Firse fresnel fresnes acce sector te tes U and 1 bair buir to give the impression that it was several at ata a tlona a at widely separated locations loa laa it orm one message to I 1 in par particular ter was we designed oil to add to the enemy a suspicion of the approaching approach lint trouble an imperative demand tor far Z c copies boora additional of at the cardow sheet ht h t plan dirse in map this wild could only be interpreted by the ger mans a tile americans agreed as arp prepa atlon tito lor a coming 19 did drive on th atae e baily jr iron teat center lible in addition to the wireless airline the X anav also had to in operation on an the treat front between betwee be Beon aux rod and F Fresn ares pa a telephone squat a careless res squad uld sem which set it up telephone stations tatum h her or and there and sent seat messages and talk talked it sit shop p and helped all night about I 1 the a arrival of some once old mende friends from america with such each nod and such each an ad outfit the X army telephone squad took talk no chances chame that the germans might eight not t be hear the a att the am abw d deel lead th them orn to acord the d grounded their wl wires so the enemy could anten in 11 and crawled out into 11 no me mans land in the el led and booked one of the american america wires wire on a german be barbed r b d wire 1 in front of an a abandoned trench system in the 1 front line of modern 11 warfare ill the a ae telephone otome Is a most 1 dow dnn go gamus 1 instrument tor far both sides idea de no d apparatus which within creola 1 halts I tw t a pick up con conversation r ehms a lintel over ever enemy my alnea Us with chich hill it 1 was I out not al even I 1 connected select to an the americana amerie felt cor certain talt trait tint all 11 1 their he conan e newis am w ere heard by the GO germans on get results at or once te two I 1 d das after the h X army began Tre eldS it its operations the results began to be noticeable tile the ne blostic on the pan of the germans gemans being exhibited in hnry u ava the on enemy eav first sending lending the over a 1 large urge number coner of airplanes to make the genorn genanna ulso also idelar began a eerie adries of trench rules raids to 0 obtain ble prisoners for the purpose of identifying units of the forces oppa site them german prison captured by ill oie french told of wild alarm alarms in the night on the part of the german forces arcee hurried of the main line of resinete rest resi mete and var various iones other movements a will which itch indicated that the enemy was exerting extreme on an neve raft of the sell activity of the army operated by B hand ful fal of americana Ameri cina wh the armistice became effee the on an november 11 the ht little ile amert ell can X army still held t its is ground in th the e field near verdun and opposite its supposed position fie ae crack gri ger non man divis divisions larl stood read their guard gourd not at ever even inspecting that lilt they had been tricked icken by bv a few 8 seeing yankees yankee who were delighted de II 11 ted st ot the results obtained by the their r mischievous ch leous keda schemes which had wor worked so an lecose full fulla in deceiving the wa wlee german veterans ot 1 a five file we war |