Inside the 23rd
Rosters
Who was in The Ghost Army?
Some of the documents on which the list is based remain available for viewing below.
Table of Organization (pdf)This Table of Organization (TOO in military parlance) is a diagram that shows the structure of the unit, and what all the sub-units were.
Headquarters Company Roster (pdf)This roster was put together for the trip home across the Atlantic on the General O.H. Ernst. in June, 1945.
603rd Camouflage Engineers (pdf)An undated roster of the 603rd.
3132 Signal Company, Special (pdf)This is a list of men in the 3132 listed in a caption from a group photo taken before they left for Europe. Thus the men are not listed either alphabetically, or by platoon.
Signal Company, Special Roster (pdf)This roster of the Signal Company, Special (Formerly the 244th Signal Company) was put together for the trip home across the Atlantic on the General O.H. Ernst.
406th Combat Engineers (pdf)This is the April, 1944 order that creates the 406th Combat Engineers in April 1944. It essentially takes all the men in the 293 Combat Engineers and moves them into this new unit as part of the 23rd.
New York Leave List (pdf)This is an August, 1945 list of N.Y. men from the 23rd authorized to go on leave. It comes from the collection of John Jarvie. It may contain names that didn't get on the other lists.