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Operación Mincemeat en Punta Umbría

Punta Umbría, Comarca Metropolitana de Huelva, Huelva

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Operación Mincemeat en Punta Umbría

Curiosity · Punta Umbría, Comarca Metropolitana de Huelva, Huelva

Image of Punta Umbría, not of the place itself.

Operation Mincemeat, the famous British intelligence deception of the Second World War that involved planting a corpse with false documents to mislead the Axis forces, was carried out off the coast of Punta Umbría.

1943

Photo: Tomás Fano (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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