Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
This episode of Stuff You Should Know explores Operation Mincemeat, one of the most audacious and successful military deception operations of World War II. In 1943, British intelligence planted false invasion plans on a corpse dressed as Royal Marine Major William Martin, intending f
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