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Medford’s Jack McGlynn recalls time in ‘Ghost Army’

By Cindy Cantrell

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 23, 2012

During a 50-year career in local and state government, Medford’s Jack McGlynn kept an earlier period of his life secret, even from his wife and six children. A member of the so-called Ghost Army, McGlynn was among approximately 1,100 American GIs who used inflatable rubber tanks, sound effects, impersonations, scripted radio transmissions, and other trickery to mislead the Germans about the size, strength, and location of American units in World War II.

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