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Here's a nice 1984 TV movie via THIS POST by calzephyr77. I never got to be an actual ham, but I did a lot of SW and AM DXing, had CBs, and other radio stuff. I can relate to some things in this. I guess it's a joke - that the altruist ham ends up faking things, but his son becomes loveable. Cute.
That lead me to this video of Terry Thomas in poverty. He died in 1990...
So, then I went to look up "Terry Thomas" in Wiki, and I found this interesting featured wiki article... I guess my browser is going to make this into a block, sorry...
Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War. In 1943, the body of Glyndwr Michael was dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines, and items were placed on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals suggesting that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with merely a feint at Sicily, was also planted. The body was taken by the submarine HMS Seraph to the southern coast of Spain and released close to shore, where it was picked up the following morning by a Spanish fisherman. The nominally neutral Spanish government shared copies of the documents with German military intelligence, before returning them to the British. Ultra decrypts of German messages showed that the Germans fell for the ruse. Reinforcements were shifted to Greece and Sardinia before and during the invasion of Sicily; Sicily received none. The body was buried with military honours in Spain (grave pictured). (Full article...)
OK, that's my fun for today. Keep a stiff upper lip. Goodnight.
Click to viewThat lead me to this video of Terry Thomas in poverty. He died in 1990...
So, then I went to look up "Terry Thomas" in Wiki, and I found this interesting featured wiki article... I guess my browser is going to make this into a block, sorry...
Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War. In 1943, the body of Glyndwr Michael was dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines, and items were placed on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals suggesting that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with merely a feint at Sicily, was also planted. The body was taken by the submarine HMS Seraph to the southern coast of Spain and released close to shore, where it was picked up the following morning by a Spanish fisherman. The nominally neutral Spanish government shared copies of the documents with German military intelligence, before returning them to the British. Ultra decrypts of German messages showed that the Germans fell for the ruse. Reinforcements were shifted to Greece and Sardinia before and during the invasion of Sicily; Sicily received none. The body was buried with military honours in Spain (grave pictured). (Full article...)
OK, that's my fun for today. Keep a stiff upper lip. Goodnight.