Operation Mincemeat is the complicated and fascinating story of how British Intelligence threw the Germans off the scent and had them divert forces away from strategic areas in Italy — areas which the British then proceeded to use as landing points for their invasion force.
Anyways, nevermind that, because more interestingly, the story includes someone with the bad-assest name ever: The coroner Sir Bentley Purchase.
Times Online: ‘How a dead Welsh tramp threw the Nazis off course’.
