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Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael , a tramp who died from eating rat poison , dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying ...
May 13, 2022 · In 1943, British intelligence acquired the corpse of Glyndwr Michael from a morgue and dressed him up as a fictitious officer named William Martin, planting fake documents in his clothes to suggest...
May 6, 2022 · Here’s the true story behind Operation Mincemeat. What was Operation Mincemeat? In 1943, Allied forces comprising Britain, France, Canada, the U.S., and Australia planned to launch an...
Apr 14, 2022 · Operation Mincemeat: how a corpse duped Hitler. As the Allies plotted to invade Sicily in 1943, two British intelligence officers concocted an elaborate deception operation involving a corpse, a submarine, and a briefcase stuffed with documents. What followed would alter the course of WW2 – and save thousands of lives.
May 16, 2022 · Operation Mincemeat, it explained, could be used to convince Germany that Sicily was merely a cover for an actual attack planned for Greece—rather than the other way around.
Apr 19, 2022 · The plan, code-named Operation Mincemeat, involved planting forged documents upon a dead body before setting him adrift in neutral Spanish waters, with the aim of the papers ending up in German...
Operation Mincemeat diverted Nazis from the Allied invasion of Sicily using a corpse deposited off the Spanish coast, which carried falsified documents.
