OPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE DEAD MAN WHO HELPED WIN THE WAR

Episode 111 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on Operation Mincemeat — the 1943 British intelligence operation in which a dead Welsh vagrant was given a fabricated military identity, chained to a briefcase of fake invasion plans, and floated ashore in Spain, fooling Hitler into moving his forces away from Sicily before the largest Allied amphibious landing of the war.The idea was first sketched by Ian Fleming. The man who made it possible died alone and homeless in London.#HistoryMystery #OperationMincemeat #WorldWarII #BritishIntelligence #HistoryPodcast