[Boatanchors] Movie: " The Man that never Was"

[Jim]

A new book "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Macintyre claims to be the "latest" 
on the subject.
The purpose of the of the operation was to convince the Germans that the 
landings in Sicily were going to be in Greece.

I watched the movie yesterday.  The filmmakers took some license with the 
story and made it a lot more interesting than the book.

Jim

> I believe I remember having seen that movie. Something about
> the Allies putting a uniform on the corpse of an unknown and
> planting papers on that corpse to give the impression that he
> was some sort of spy in advance of an invasion in the south
> of France or maybe Italy?
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>> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:12:53 -0500
>> From: grimm at sbc.edu
>> To: jbrannig at verizon.net
>> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; meils at get2net.dk
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Movie: " The Man that never Was"
>>
>> It's a great flick, starring Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame. It is a
>> fairly accurate account of an actual event, designed to divert attention
>> away from the Normandy beaches as the site for the D-Day invasion.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Ken - K4XL
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jim <jbrannig at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > The man WHO never was is available from Netflix on DVD and streaming
>> > video......
>> >
>> > I may watch it this afternoon.
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> >
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