Operation Mincemeat: The Trojan Horse of World War II

It’s 1943, and Europe is entrenched in World War II. The Allies are preparing to invade Nazi-occupied Sicily, but they need a decoy; something to misdirect the Germans and give Allied troops an advantage. A team within British Intelligence comes up with a plan: they’ll create an elaborate smokescreen to make the Nazis think they’re invading Greece. That, friends, is when a very important dead body takes center stage …

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