Operation Mincemeat is set in 1943 as the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. But they face an impossible challenge – to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre.
Operation Mincemeat was a military deception operation carried out by the Allied Forces during World War II. Its aim was to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily as merely a feint, by planting false documents and correspondence on a corpse and faking the corpse’s identity as a fictional Captain of the army. The corpse along with the documents was released from a submarine near the shores of Spain to be discovered by Spain and the documents were shared with the Germans, making them believe that the main target of the Allies would be Greece. The operation proved to be successful, as even Adolf Hitler was deceived by the plan and didn’t provide enough forced to defend Sicily while the Allied forces were liberating it.
Stars Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadden and Jason Issacs
