VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Gettysburg's Camp Sharpe During World War II
Join ACHS for this special VIRTUAL program on Thursday, March 14th at 7 p.m. The program will be streamed to our YouTube channel.
How do you train artists, academics, writers, actors, and business executives for psychological warfare? This program lets you go behind the scenes of a WWII training camp with Dr. Beverley Eddy. She has interviewed veterans of the secret camp on the Gettysburg battlefield to learn the “inside” story of how the men prepared for the European invasion in 1944.
The place? Camp Sharpe in McMillan Woods, just off Confederate Avenue in Gettysburg. The mission? Develop psychological warfare tools targeting German military and civilians. Following the D-Day invasion, the mobile radio broadcast companies (MRBs) would land in Europe, moving into Germany using radio broadcasting, leaflet and newspaper distribution, direct microphone appeals at the front, and prisoner interrogation techniques. Their goal was to shorten the European war by lowering morale of the enemy. In her book, Psycho Boys, Dr. Eddy shares her in-depth research and interviews to explain how the men were trained, how they spent their time in Gettysburg, as well as how successful they were in achieving their mission.
Beverley Driver Eddy is professor emerita of German studies at Dickinson College, with seven books to her credit, including the Ritchie Boy Secrets.
