Past President Shawn stepped in for Pres Craig at yesterday's meeting. Rebecca Eckland, the Communications and Marketing Director of the Nevada Museum of Art, told us about one of the current exhibits at the museum. The Ghost Army exhibit is about a WWII classified operation whose goal was to make the German forces think that we had troops in an area where we did not have troops. To do this the U.S. Army developed life size inflatable tanks, trucks, aircraft, etc. which were used to give the appearance of troops and equipment in locations where there were no real fighting units. It is an exhibit that is a must see.
And Rebecca briefly discussed the major museum expansion which will allow many of the permanent collections that are in storage to be displayed.