Everything is ready. Take a look at the items carried by "Major Martin". There are many types:
file bag, wallet, watch, cross (hanging items), officer certificate , identification card (identification name when a soldier died, the card of the troops he was in), Lim's letter and photos in the wallet, nightclub invitations, bank warning slips, officer club receipts, engagement ring payment notice, father's letter and a corner on the upper end of the envelope (teared off when the letter was opened), a 5-pound note, 3 pound note, 4 copper plate , two bus tickets, a bunch of keys, half a pencil, a box of matches, half a pack of cigarettes, two used tickets for "Prince of Wales Theater" (April 22), etc.
British Prime Minister Churchill approved the implementation time of the " Meat Plan ".
On the morning of April 19, Grinak Military Port was shrouded in heavy fog, cars kept ringing horns, yellow and red street lights were sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and a mysterious atmosphere filled the Grinak Military Port.
5:10, the "Seraf" submarine that carried out the "Mermeat Operation" departed from Grinak Port.
The "Seraf" submarine was landing in North Africa . When it was landing in North Africa, it had carried out a secret mission to transport Clark (later the commander of the Allied forces in Tokyo). Captain Major Jackson had experience in performing intelligence missions, and Masil valued him very much.
After 10 days of submersible voyage, the Seraf arrived in the pre-determined waters. The captain observed the situation a nautical mile near the port of Bilbao.
"Falcon, falcon, I am a seal, I am a seal, please answer after hearing it." radio wave crossed the dark ocean and arrived in London.
"I am a Falcon, I am a Falcon! Please tell me-" Lieutenant Colonel Masil's expression was serious, and the translator operated nervously.
"Seal Report, we have arrived at the 'coral island', one nautical mile away from ' coral flower ', can we pick it? Please answer!"
Masil looked at the watch, at 4:15.
"The operation begins and is completed at 4:30!" The captain
ordered, and the container containing the 'Major Martin' was moved up from the floating tank by four officers and placed on the deck. The captain said seriously to the four officers: "What you see tonight is that you must forget tomorrow. This matter is related to Britain's victory. Whoever leaks the news will be severely punished by military discipline."
The other fifty sailors on the submarine were all locked in the cabin. The four officers knew the seriousness of the matter because this was the first incident on the submarine that did not believe in their own people.
The silver-white container was opened, which surprised the officers. The container was neither optical instrument nor a new weapon. It turned out to be a corpse! The officers lifted the blanket and saw a body in military uniform.
4 At 30:00, under the captain's low command, the body slid towards the sea. "Major Martin" set out on the battle, and the file bag was tightly tied to the inner belt of the military uniform. Whether the "Eskimo Operation" can be successful depends on this file bag.
Immediately, London received a signal: "The 'meat filling plan' has been implemented."
3 days later, a fisherman who went out to sea near the Bay of Cadiz estuary of the Huelva River in southern Spain found a corpse floating on the sea. He pulled the body onto a small boat and dragged it to the Umburia beach in the ancient Moors Fishing Town of Huelva.
Hundreds of fishermen and their children surrounded the body and watched the Spanish military and police inspect and take photos of the body.
The body was soon sent to the Walls Hospital in Spain for autopsy. Anatomical results: The corpse system fell into the sea alive and drowned. There was a small amount of sea water in its lungs. It was estimated that the corpse had been drifting on the sea for 3 to 5 days.
After the Spanish Navy Office found out the identity of the body, it notified the British consulate in Huelva about the matter. However, because the Spanish authorities had close ties with Nazi Germany (this is why the British chose the place to throw the body in Spain), while notifying the British, they also informed the British, and also informed the German spies in Spain. The fast-moving German spies immediately took the lead and took a sneak shot of all the documents on Major Martin before the British consul claimed the body.
Soon after, a photocopy of the document was sent to the German headquarters for identification. After receiving the report from the Spanish Intelligence Agency, the Berlin authorities immediately began to conduct identification and instructed the representative of the Intelligence Agency to provide more detailed details.
5 days later, London received the first report from the Navy Attendant of the British Embassy in Madrid : "The British vice-consul of the Port of Bilbao claimed the body of Marine Major Martin drifting on the sea from the Spanish military police, and the body has been buried." The document bag incident did not mention a single sentence.
London immediately issued an instructor to the Madrid Embassy: "Major Martin's personal belongings should be notified by the Spanish authorities to find out their whereabouts, but be careful not to let the Spanish authorities understand the importance of the documents."
The Embassy quickly called back: "The Spanish government has handed over Major Martin's file bags and other relics intact." As soon as the file bag arrived in London, the British Intelligence Agency used new scientific methods to test it. Finally, from the doubt that the clips clips on the paper were dry, it was found that the document had been opened by the Germans' technical method of softening paper with salt water, and they were disassembled and copied.
Lieutenant Colonel Masir immediately wrote a report to Major General Carl of “The ‘Mutton Plan’ has been implemented”.
This report was quickly sent to the Prime Minister's Office, No. 10 Downing Street.
At the same time, the British Navy notary listed Major Martin's name on the register of fallen soldiers. On May 28, the " Times " released a list of fallen soldiers, including Major Martin, and issued an obituary.
After negotiations by the British Embassy in Spain, Major Martin's body was buried in Huelva according to the official military ceremony. His "fiancee" specially sent a wreath and attached a "depressed" mourning postcard .
The British Vice Consul in Huelva also erected a simple white marble tombstone for "Martin". The inscription is:
William Martin, born on March 29, 1907 in , Wales , Cardiff ... Sacrifice your life for the country, supreme glory, I wish you rest in peace.
As expected by British spy agency , German spies were extremely active in Spain. German spies in the port of Bilbao unexpectedly received a letter from "Major Martin", and they were very proud of their treasures.
Because, the top-secret in-person letter from the Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Army to the British Commander of North Africa is not so easy to obtain.
Germany carefully studied the secret documents and the items carried by Major Martin and submitted a report to Hitler, "Although the reliability of the documents is unquestionable, the relevant details need to be investigated further."
Hitler carefully read the report and ordered: It is related to the situation of the war, and investigate Martin carefully.
In London, on May 12, a middle-aged man knocked on the office of the Royal Theater Manager of the British Theater, "Sorry, Manager, I'm disturbed. I'm Major Healy, the General Staff Office. We have an officer missing at 17 p.m. on April 18. I want to check the performance time and repertoire of your institute. It is said that he and his girlfriend were in the theater at the time."
Manager was a little unhappy. "It is normal for a person to disappear during the war. There has been no kidnapping incident in our hospital recently. Please be careful not to affect our hospital's reputation." But the manager still checked the performance record form. "On April 18, well, the performance of " Hamlet " was 19 o'clock." The manager said while watching.
"Cheer! Trouble!" "Major Healy" thought after exiting the door: It is consistent with the time on "Hamlet" on Lim's letter and the movie ticket. He never expected that the play that Lieutenant George and Rem went to see was definitely true. However, Lieutenant George was recalled by Masil to perform official duties as soon as he arrived at the theater.
"Major Healy" walked along the Thames River for a stop, looked up at the 10-storey building "Kelun" Bank in front of him. He walked into the bank, took the elevator to the 8th floor, and pushed open the office of President Philip.
"Hello, I am Major Healy who just returned from North Africa."
"Is there anything wrong?" President Philip did not look up.
"I am a colleague of Major Martin.I heard that he has been owed to you for a long time and has not paid back the debt. I would like to ask you to check how much you owe, and I will pay it back for my boss. Because he has sacrificed. "
" Major Martin? "President Philip glanced at Healy with an undetectable gaze. "Poor man! May God bless him! OK, I'll check it out. "
The president pretended to find a big red-skin book, "Well, it's 79 pounds, 19 shillings 2p . However, he has sacrificed his life for the country, so that’s all he can’t afford. "
" That's very thankful! "Hilly walked out of the office.
" It seems that it is true. "Major Healy" thought to himself. "Let me take the test of that Lim again. "
He took out the address he found in the ballet troupe, walked into a light yellow apartment, went to the third floor, and knocked on room 312.
"Who? "The voice of a girl.
knocked a few more times, the door opened, and a beautiful girl came out.
"Is it Miss Lim, right? "
" No, I am Mary and from the same dormitory as Lim, please come in, she went to buy snacks. "
" I am Major Healy, Major Martin's colleague. "He stared at her.
" Major Martin? "
" Lim's boyfriend? "Hilly explained.
"Lim's boyfriend is George! "
"Major Healy" felt a little sad. To be cautious, he wanted to confirm it clearly.
"How long have you known Lim? "
" moved here last week and I only met. "
" Lim, you are back. This is Major Healy. He said he is Martin's friend. Is Martin your original boyfriend?"
Lim was stunned at first, then nodded, took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears, and shed tears. "I didn't expect that he was so cruel and left me alone. "
" Miss Lim, don't be sad. We are all sad about his sacrifice. Don't you have a boyfriend now? "Major Healy" asked straight in one fell swoop.
How could he know? Lim glanced at Mary and understood. "I just met, but I just wanted to break free from Martin's sudden departure. I'm sorry Martin. "As he said that, he started crying again.
" Martin's mother wrote to him, talking about your marriage. "
" No, it was his father's letter. "
" Oh, yes, I remembered it wrongly, you should take care of yourself. I live at No. 37 Mida Street. I have something to do and see me, goodbye!"
"Major Healy" hurriedly left after saying that, and returned to his apartment to send a report to the German Bureau:
"The 'Martin incident' is basically true. If you cannot receive a call back at 18 o'clock in the evening, that is, I have been arrested, and the 'Martin incident' is fake. "
Lim quickly called George and told him the address of "Major Healy".
George found Masil and suggested using the method of accidents to arrest "Major Healy" and destroy their investigation plan.
"No. Judging from the current situation, the progress is going smoothly, and we can use it to make plans. "
Ginger is still the old hot. George looked at Marciel with admiration, admiring his wisdom.
18 hours have arrived, and there is no movement. "Major Healy" sent a report: "Martin is real. "
The German army was convinced that the Allies would definitely attack Greece and Sardinian at the same time, so they began to adjust their deployment and take countermeasures without delay. This was a major shift in the direction of the German battle. The German command had determined in February that the next target of the Allies' capture was Sicily . At the end of April, before the secret documents were obtained, they were still engaged in defensive preparations based on this idea.
Hitler, who received "intelligence", was ecstatic. Based on this "intelligence" and the judgment made by the German intelligence agencies on this, Hitler clearly stated in an order on May 12:
"After the upcoming battle in Tunisia, it can be expected that the British and American coalition forces will try to continue to act quickly in Mediterranean ... Preparations are ready, and the most dangerous areas are the following: in the Western Mediterranean there are Sardinia , Corsica and Sicily; in the Eastern Mediterranean there are Peloponnese and Dodecanese .In this regard, I ask all German command agencies related to Mediterranean defense to work quickly and closely, use all troops and equipment to strengthen the defense of these dangerous areas as much as possible in the remaining time. Among them, the first thing to do is to strengthen the defense of Sardinia and Peloponnese. ”
On May 14, Hitler met with Mussolini at his Villa Gaichlil, revealed the contents of Martin’s secret documents to him, and said proudly: “I think this is indeed true! This information is too important when we are indecisive. ”
Mussolini said: “I always have a premonition that the Allies still want to attack Sicily. "Hitler emphasized and said, "Intuition is not as important as intelligence, we have obtained reliable intelligence! intelligence! ”
The next day, Hitler convened the combat meeting of the Supreme Command of . He ordered: “All German commands related to Mediterranean defense quickly and closely coordinated to concentrate all their troops and firearms, and to complete the assembly and deployment of Sardinia and the Peloponnese (located in southern Greece) on June 30. "
According to Hitler's order, Marshal Rommel was sent to Greece to organize an army group , and together with the First Armored Division, which was then transferred from southern France, set up three lines of defense in the Aegean Sea in eastern Greece.
Hitler drew two armored divisions from South-German battlefield and ordered to arrive in Greece within 9 days. At the same time, he sent the SS to Sardinia and extracted armored troops from Sicily to strengthen the defense of Corsica . However, at the real location where the Allies were about to land, Sicily, its defense power was weak.
Become the Field Marshal html l2 Rommel When he moved his base camp to Greece, the Allies concentrated their main force and landed in Sicily on the night of July 9, 1943. This was absolutely unexpected for the German army. He helped the Allies successfully capture this strategic island with the fake "meat filling" action plan.
In this battle, more than 227,000 German and Italian troops were injured and captured, while only more than 21,000 British and American troops were injured and killed.
It was indeed a legend in the history of spy war. Sicily landing was a strategic turning point for the Allies in World War II. It knocked on the door to death of fascists.
It was indeed a legend in the history of spy war. Sicily landing was a strategic turning point for the Allies in World War II. It knocked on the door to death of fascists.
