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Howdy folks, today we're taking a look back at one of the more sensational stories to come out of WW2.  Check out the full text here!
Edited by hobbstrosity, Jul 01 2012 - 23:23.

as always a good read

TY for the info wargaming!

There's an excellent history of this, called "Deathly Deception:The real story of Operation Mincemeat",by Denis Smyth.  There is also "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben McIntyre, another really good read.  The movie from the '50's, "The Man Who Never Was" was based on the book by one of the guys who put it all together, and is good to watch as well.

Great read! i think i smell a military/history channel special on this topic coming up. . . . ;)

For a second, I thought I read it as "Operation Minecraft", heheh.

Good read though.

I remember looking a a book about this very topic when browsing the local library....

didn't pick it up as I thought it was fiction...

spotted a bit of a typo
their forces needed to bulked up in those other locations.
shouldnt that read as their forces needed to be bulked up in those other locations?

+ 1

I saw a video about this on Horrible Histories. :D

Spartan96, on Jul 02 2012 - 00:20, said:

yeah saw this on the mil channel---secrets missions of WW2 was the show on i think

Great read as usual, look's like story from Novel

Actually your identity for the corpse is almost certainly not correct.

And what makes you say that? The fact that the British Government confirmed the identity of Major William Martin as Glyndwr Michael on his gravestone certainly reinforces the issue.

supposedly the body is that of a salior who was on an aircraft carier that sank a week earlier.

remember hearing about it on a millitary channel secrets of world war 2 show

They made a movie about this in the '50s - the Man Who Never Was  http://en.wikipedia....n_Who_Never_Was

NynjaSquirrel, on Jul 02 2012 - 11:14, said:

New facts were shown in BBC documentary (produced and directed by Jonathan Martin)
"The Man Who Hoodwinked Hitler" [part of the BBC series: Heroes and Weapons of WWII]

i highly recommend to watch it... (the story complexity requires a lot of time to explain every aspect of it - which i don't have at the moment)
enough to say, it was brilliant spy-work, which wouldn't work with Glyndwr Michael's body...

PM if you want, i try to help in spare time.

dingofire121094, on Jul 02 2012 - 16:36, said:

HMS "Dasher" (D37) - to be exact... (sunk 27 march 1943 at 55º40'N, 04º57'W, after inner hull explosion)

Random fact but Ian Fleming also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as well as the Bond books....

'The Man Who Never Was' is an excellent film. I beleive they even creted a real officer profile with commissioning dates etc and published them so the Germans could check in the London Gazette if he was a real commissioned officer or not.