| Caption | Â Â Â | False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943. ww2dbase | ||||||
| Source | Â Â Â | ww2dbaseImperial War Museum | ||||||
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| Photos at Same Place | Â | England, United Kingdom | ||||||
| Added By | Â | David Stubblebine | ||||||
| Added Date | Â | 1 Aug 2016 | ||||||
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| Licensing | Â | Crown Copyright / Public Domain. According to the Crown Copyright laws of the United Kingdom, copyright protection has expired for photographs created prior to 1 Jun 1957. | ||||||
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Note the clumsy joke at the end of the letter about sardines. This was meant to suggest to the Germans that Sardinia was the Allied target (clumsy perhaps; but it worked!).