Ohio man helped coordinate WWII "Ghost Army"

CLEVELAND  -- An Ohio man is talking about the role he played in a World War II version of trick or treat that helped shape the epic engagement's outcome.

William Anderson of Kent in northeast Ohio was a member of the U.S. Army Unit known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops but commonly known as the "Ghost Army."   

More than 1,000 soldiers served in the unit, code-named "Blarney," that was dedicated to fooling the German army on battlefields across Europe.   

The trick was setting up phony, inflatable tanks, trucks and artillery under cover of darkness, then using loudspeakers to simulate the sounds of troop and vehicle movement.   

The treat was the real attack that would hit enemy forces where they weren't expecting it.