Nov 30, 2022
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 him
as the fictitious Captain (Acting Major) William
Martin. Correspondence between two British generals that
suggested that the Allies planned
to invade Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily
as merely the target of a feint, was also placed on
the body.
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