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From "Operation Greif", bolding mine:

As a result, U.S. troops began asking other soldiers questions that they felt only Americans would know the answers to in order to flush out the German infiltrators, which included naming certain states' capitals, sports and trivia questions related to the U.S., etc. This practice resulted in U.S. brigadier general Bruce Clarke being held at gunpoint for some time after he incorrectly said the Chicago Cubs were in the American League[7][8][9][10] and a captain spending a week in detention after he was caught wearing German boots. General Omar Bradley was repeatedly stopped in his staff car by checkpoint guards who seemed to enjoy asking him such questions. The Skorzeny commando paranoia also contributed to tragic instances of mistaken identity which were very common. All over the Ardennes, U.S. soldiers attempted to persuade suspicious U.S. military policemen that they were genuine GIs. On 20 December, two U.S. soldiers were killed by a nervous military policeman.[11] Two more U.S. soldiers were killed and several wounded as late as 2 January 1945 when an armor task force from the U.S. 6th Armored Division moving into the Wardin area of Bastogne opened fire on the U.S. 35th Infantry Division in a case of mistaken identity.[12][full citation needed] (According to Paul Fussell, an uncorrected typographical error on U.S. identity cards could serve as a tell: the top of a genuine card read "Not a pass. For indentification [sic] purposes only." Fussell suggests that a German preparing the disguises of the commandos could not resist correcting the spelling on their false cards to read "identification". Fussell does not cite a particular example.[13])

1,088 ComradeSandman

Seems the highlight link won't work with markdown due to ending in a parenthesis...
Here is is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greif#:~:text=As%20a%20result,13%5D)

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37.6k Graingy

@Boeing727200F Hitler wanted a ~3000 strong unit of American doppelgangers, but they couldn't manage anything near that. Still, the existence of what little existed (and in whatever low quality it was) managed to give the Americans stress anyways.

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42.3k MIGFOXHOUND31BSM26

Just read the whole thing, it’s very interesting

14.5k OverlordPrime

That went from minor inconvenience to getting people killed real quick.

23 days ago

33.5k Boeing727200F

so what is wrong with it?

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