{"id":81684,"date":"2023-07-30T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=81684"},"modified":"2023-04-24T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:56:23","slug":"the-grave-of-the-man-who-never-was-operation-mincemeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/30\/the-grave-of-the-man-who-never-was-operation-mincemeat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grave of the Man Who Never Was: Operation Mincemeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8lQtdhtw5eI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Scott<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 7 Nov 2016<\/p>\n<p>In a cemetery in Huelva, in Spain, is the grave of Major William Martin, of the British Royal Marines. Or rather, it&#8217;s the grave of a man called Glyndwr Michael, who served his country during World War 2 in a very unexpected way &#8230; after his death.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Camera by Paul Curry (@cr3)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at <a href=\"http:\/\/tomscott.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tomscott.com<\/a><br \/>\non Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscott\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscott<\/a><br \/>\nand on Snapchat and Instagram as tomscottgo<\/p>\n<p>This video was researched at the National Archives, using files WO 106\/5921, CAB 154\/67 and CAB 154\/112. The documents and pictures you see here are either expired Crown Copyright, or are public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWdyNU1hMi1hZU5tdlJCVF83bTRybUVQdTk0QXxBQ3Jtc0tuWmM0X1BJTVpFZjFsQUNLZVdXaXUzVmJHN2xsZ0YzS01HRUJWM2NUMXZxOWVtem5YRWRBdTBwdHFJWXZKTTNDcXlkM2dRVEVJY3QtekJEemxkMjZycWUwSERjcU9uaHduRkNFUTNPUktRdW9va0FuWQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalarchives.gov.uk%2Fdoc%2Fopen-government-licence%2Fversion%2F3%2F&#038;v=8lQtdhtw5eI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/do&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scott Published 7 Nov 2016 In a cemetery in Huelva, in Spain, is the grave of Major William Martin, of the British Royal Marines. Or rather, it&#8217;s the grave of a man called Glyndwr Michael, who served his country during World War 2 in a very unexpected way &#8230; after his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,1118,1526,7,339,5,230],"tags":[476,969,1216,335],"class_list":["post-81684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-germany","category-greece","category-history","category-italy","category-military","category-ww2","tag-espionage","tag-hitler","tag-sicily","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lfu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81686,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81684\/revisions\/81686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}