2 real historical locations · Spain, United Kingdom
Colin Firth in the true story of Operation Mincemeat — the British intelligence deception in which a corpse carrying false documents was planted off the coast of Spain to mislead the Germans about the 1943 Allied invasion target, helping ensure the success of the Sicily landings.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Spain, United Kingdom.
MI5 officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley devise Operation Mincemeat — planting false Allied invasion plans on a corpse dressed as a Royal Marines o...
Operation Mincemeat was conceived by Ian Fleming and executed in April 1943. The body of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh vagrant, was dressed as 'Major William Martin RM' and released from submarine HMS Seraph off Huelva. Th...
View location →The body of 'Major Martin' washes ashore at Huelva — local Spanish intelligence photographs the documents and passes them to the German Abwehr, who swallow t...
Huelva was chosen because local Spanish authorities were known to be pro-German. Adolf Clauss, the local Abwehr agent, photographed the briefcase documents and passed them to Berlin. German High Command moved a Panzer...
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