The Film

Advisers

Professor Roy Behrens: A professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa, (and a veteran of the Marine Corps)  Behrens edits Ballast Quarterly Review,art directs the North American Review, and is contributing editor of PRINT, the New York-based design magazine. A world authority on art and camouflage, his books include Art and Camouflage (1981); Illustration as an Art (1986); False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage (2002). He was one of four contributors to DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material: An Encyclopedia of Camouflage (2004).

Dr. Douglas Brinkley: Director of the Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and Professor of History at Tulane University. Before coming to Tulane, Dr. Brinkley served as Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. One of America's most well known historians, he served as General Editor of the New York Times history of World War II, and also co-authored The World War II Desk Reference. He has written numerous other books including The Great Deluge, The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc, and Tour of Duty.

Roy Eichhorn: Director, Research and Development, US Army Combined Arms Center, US Army Command and General Staff College. He has done extensive research on the Ghost Army and other US military deception efforts, and uses the Ghost Army as a case study in his teaching.  He also has a personal connection to the unithis father, George Martin, was the official photographer of the 603rd Camouflage Engineers.

Jonathan Gawne: One of the world's foremost authorities on The Ghost Army, Gawne is author of Ghosts of the ETO, a book that draws on numerous interviews with veterans and extensive archival research to tell the story of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. He is considered one of the leading experts on the history of American Army uniforms and equipment in both world wars.. He has been a technical consultant for many museums and films.

Peter Harrington: Curator of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University, he presides over one of the largest compilations of military art in the United States with more than 12,000 individual paintings and prints, 18,000 scrapbooks, and 13,000 books. The collection features a growing archive of World War II art that includes the collections of several Ghost Army artists. Harrington has spent decades studying artists and war, and has written, lectured, and exhibited extensively on the subject.

Dr. Sarah K. Rich: An associate professor of Art History at Penn State University, Dr. Rich specializes in art after 1940, with particular emphasis on abstract painting produced in the United States during the Cold War era. She has written about Ellsworth Kelly and other postwar artists in Artforum, Art Bulletin and Afterimage. She has recently delivered papers at the Institute of Fine Art in New York, Yale University and Harvard University.

Dr. Theodore Wilson: Acting Chair of the History Department at the University of Kansas, Dr. Wilson has spent much of his career focusing on World War II. He is the general editor of the University Press of Kansas series, Modern War Studies, which has published some 130 original titles on military history and related subjects. His book, The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay 1941 won the Society of American Historians' Parkman Prize. He is the editor of D-Day 1944 and coeditor of Victory in Europe 1945: From World War to Cold War. He has written numerous articles on the war, and is currently working on a new book, Building Warriors: Selection and Training of U.S. Ground Combat Troops in World War II
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