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  • Operation Mincemeat

    Good account. We come off a great generation of people.


    Last edited by trubrit2411; 3 June 2018, 04:56.
    "If they control your speech.....they control your life"
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    There's a good book out about Operation Mincemeat. Well worth a read very interesting.
    Bob (geordie) Watts

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      That doc gets right into the small print on the whole thing. The film because of the Official Secrets act got the sad 'ol bloke who "donated" the body wrong. The Krauts moved 8 divisions of Panzers and Infantry and a ton of Luftwaffe to defend Greece two weeks before the Allies stormed Sicily, Those Divisions were aligned for another go at Russia. When that never happened it opened the road straight to Berlin for the Russkies. That dead Welshman. All orchestrated by two blokes and two birds in a small dingy room below the Admiralty.....from an idea floated by Ian Fleming.
      Last edited by trubrit2411; 3 June 2018, 14:43.
      "If they control your speech.....they control your life"
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        Remember watching the flick about that, "The Man That Never Was". Sounds like a description of Elephant John!

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          There is another theory about where the body they used came from, the argument being that they would have been unlikely to take the risk of using an alcoholic tramp who'd used rat poison to play a Royal Marine officer, who would have been in better physical condition, on such an important deception, and it has been suggested that the corpse used came from the aircraft carrier HMS Dasher, which had an internal explosion and sank in the Firth of Clyde, news of which was kept secret, due to the fact that the ship had been built in America, and they didn't want to badmouth American ship building techniques at such a delicate time. The Americans blamed the British for bad fuel handling, but both changed their fuel handling procedures from then on. Some say that they used a dead RN sailor, as he would have been a better candidate, more likely to deceive.

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            Re: Operation Mincemeat

            Well you learn something every day, cheers Findlay. Never knew that mate.
            Bob (geordie) Watts

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