A decoy plane with dead pilot used in the war, can anyone help?
The Man Who Never Was is a 1954 book by Ewen Montagu and a 1956 World War II war film based on the book. It is about Operation ‘Mincemeat’, a 1943 British Intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking Operation ‘Husky’, the Allied invasion of Sicily, would take place elsewhere. The film was directed by Ronald Neame and starred Clifton Webb as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu, Gloria Grahame as Lucy Sherwood, Robert Flemyng as Lt. George Acres, Josephine Griffin as Pam, Stephen Boyd as Patrick O’Reilly, Laurence Naismith as Adml. Cross, Geoffrey Keen as Gen. Nye, André Morell as Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Michael Hordern as Gen. Coburn and William Squire as submarine commander Bill Jewell. Operation ‘Mincemeat’ involved the acquisition of a human cadaver, dressing it as a ‘Major William Martin, R.M.’ and putting it into the sea near Huelva, Spain. Attached to the corpse was a brief-case containing fake letters suggesting that the Allied attack would be against Sardinia and Greece. When t
