Then What Happens? | Operation Mincemeat: The Allied Victory Secrets That Changed History @ThenWhatHappens | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Operation Mincemeat is the unbelievable true story of how British M15 counterintelligence devised with a plan to plant a corpse attached to a briefcase full of highly sensitive, but ingeniously faked documents.
Would German spies pass the information up the ranks to Hitler? Or would the Nazis recognise a Trojan Horse when they saw one? ---If the contents of the documents were to be believed by Hitler, Nazi forces would be waiting for an invasion from the allied forces in completely the wrong place. The real plan, the invasion of Sicily under Operation Husky would go on undefended, ultimately helping the allied forces regain control and win WW2.
The brainchild of Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, with a little help from Ian Fleming, who would go on to write James Bond novels, the top secret mission was put in action and agreed at the highest level by Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower.
But the most crucial factor to this mission's success was a Welsh man in his 30s named Glyndwr Michael who would play the part of Major William Martin. The only problem was that he wasn't an officer in the Royal Marines.
In fact, he'd been dead for 3 months before Operation Mincemeat even took place...
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Operation Mincemeat is the unbelievable true story of how British M15 counterintelligence devised with a plan to plant a corpse attached to a briefcase full of highly sensitive, but ingeniously faked documents.
Would German spies pass the information up the ranks to Hitler? Or would the Nazis recognise a Trojan Horse when they saw one? ---If the contents of the documents were to be believed by Hitler, Nazi forces would be waiting for an invasion from the allied forces in completely the wrong place. The real plan, the invasion of Sicily under Operation Husky would go on undefended, ultimately helping the allied forces regain control and win WW2.
The brainchild of Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, with a little help from Ian Fleming, who would go on to write James Bond novels, the top secret mission was put in action and agreed at the highest level by Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower.
But the most crucial factor to this mission's success was a Welsh man in his 30s named Glyndwr Michael who would play the part of Major William Martin. The only problem was that he wasn't an officer in the Royal Marines.
In fact, he'd been dead for 3 months before Operation Mincemeat even took place...
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