- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk/大象传媒 Radio Lincolnshire
- People in story:听
- CPO William G. Barnett DSM
- Location of story:听
- Off the Spanish coast
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A4856051
- Contributed on:听
- 07 August 2005
My dad was a replacement Petty Officer engineer on the submarine HMS Seraph when it went on the mission made famous in the film 鈥淭he Man Who never Was鈥. In April 1943 the body of a supposed Royal Naval Officer was released from the submarine off the coast of Spain. (Operation Mincemeat) He had a briefcase handcuffed to him and in it were false Allied plans to invade Sardinia and Greece. This mission was so successful as a decoy that it enabled the Allies to save thousands of Allied lives with the D Day landings in Southern Europe and Sicily. After that mission dad went back to HMS Unison.
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