In November 1942, Winston Churchill delivered a speech to the British House of Commons that laid bare the Allied strategy for defeating Nazi Germany …
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'Operation Mincemeat': The Wild Spy Deception That Helped Win WWII
It seems like a plot from a spy novel: British spies (including Ian Fleming) left fake "secret" plans for an invasion on a dead man's body hoping to fool the Nazis. And it worked. Plus more stories about World War II.
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Starting with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, Adolf Hitler's military machine pulled off a string of stunning victories at the start of World …
In 1944, in the oflag near the German city of Woldenberg (now the small town of Dobiegniew), in western Poland, thousands of Polish military officers …
During World War II, the U.S. Army recruited and trained a secret army of nearly 20,000 intelligence officers at a site called Camp Ritchie in rural …
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