The film includes an event in which a British staff officer brought a complete Corps-level operations order with maps and graphics, which was never supposed to leave Britain, with him on a transport glider and then inadvertently left it on the glider when it landed in Holland. The Germans eventually overran the glider landing zone and found the operations order. But the Germans were convinced that this was a set of fake documents planted for deception by the British, and actually maneuvered contrary to what the documents indicated for the first few days of the battle. This was a result of Operation Mincemeat, prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily 14 months earlier, in which British Military Intelligence prepared a corpse wearing a Royal Marine staff officer's uniform and lifejacket, and with a courier briefcase handcuffed to its wrist which contained documents indicating that the target of the impending Allied invasion was Sardinia and not Sicily. The corpse was dropped by submarine off a beach in Spain where the British knew that the pro-German Franco regime would likely find the corpse and documents and pass the information in the documents to the Germans. The plan succeeded in diverting several German divisions from Sicily to Sardinia, and was the subject of the film L'uomo che non è mai esistito (1956).

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