In the North Africa campaign in 1943, camoufleurs created a ghost army corps. Operation Bertram helped the British Eighth Army defeat Rommel’s vaunted Afrika Korps.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.