The War Below

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The War Below (2021)

War, Drama, History

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The Scarlet and the Black

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Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

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In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was

1956 β˜… 7.0

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

The Bunker

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