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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4503769, member: 16283"]Debora-Just saw very fine movie 'Operation Mincemeat'(2021)ie:'The Man Who Never Was' operation.Stars Colin Firth, Rufus Wright, Matthew Macfadyen, Ruby Bentall. WIKI Synopsis-Operation Mincemeat was a successful British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation" rel="nofollow">deception operation</a> of the WWII to disguise the 1943 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" rel="nofollow">Allied invasion of Sicily</a>. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyndwr_Michael" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyndwr_Michael" rel="nofollow">Glyndwr Michael</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramp" rel="nofollow">tramp</a> who died from eating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_poison" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_poison" rel="nofollow">rat poison</a>, dressed him as an officer of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marines" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marines" rel="nofollow">Royal Marines</a> and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" rel="nofollow">Captain</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_(rank)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_(rank)" rel="nofollow">Acting</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_(United_Kingdom)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_(United_Kingdom)" rel="nofollow">Major</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_(Royal_Marine_officer)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_(Royal_Marine_officer)" rel="nofollow">William Martin</a>. Correspondence between two British generals which suggested that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" rel="nofollow">Allies</a> planned to invade Greece and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia" rel="nofollow">Sardinia</a>, with Sicily as merely the target of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feint" rel="nofollow">feint</a>, was also placed on the body.Alowed the Allied Forces to establish a beach head in Southern Italy,and begin the successful invasion of Hitler's Europe culminating with the D-Day Landing and the march to Berlin.</p><p> I haven't consulted numerous WWII Historians/Bogs on the absolute accuracy and veracity of every second of this drama,but for a long fact packed piece of cinema-it moved like a freight train ! ...no easy feat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4503769, member: 16283"]Debora-Just saw very fine movie 'Operation Mincemeat'(2021)ie:'The Man Who Never Was' operation.Stars Colin Firth, Rufus Wright, Matthew Macfadyen, Ruby Bentall. WIKI Synopsis-Operation[B] [/B]Mincemeat was a successful British [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation']deception operation[/URL] of the WWII to disguise the 1943 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily']Allied invasion of Sicily[/URL]. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyndwr_Michael']Glyndwr Michael[/URL], a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramp']tramp[/URL] who died from eating [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_poison']rat poison[/URL], dressed him as an officer of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marines']Royal Marines[/URL] and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)']Captain[/URL] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_(rank)']Acting[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_(United_Kingdom)']Major[/URL]) [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Martin_(Royal_Marine_officer)']William Martin[/URL]. Correspondence between two British generals which suggested that the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II']Allies[/URL] planned to invade Greece and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia']Sardinia[/URL], with Sicily as merely the target of a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feint']feint[/URL], was also placed on the body.Alowed the Allied Forces to establish a beach head in Southern Italy,and begin the successful invasion of Hitler's Europe culminating with the D-Day Landing and the march to Berlin. I haven't consulted numerous WWII Historians/Bogs on the absolute accuracy and veracity of every second of this drama,but for a long fact packed piece of cinema-it moved like a freight train ! ...no easy feat.[/QUOTE]
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