The man who NEVER was | OPERATION MINCEMEAT

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

Комментарии • 53

  • @rsitch1
    @rsitch1 2 года назад +6

    Excellent ! I’m 72 years old this year. Born in 1949, I believe the movie I saw , “A man with no name “ I watched many years ago. Yes the movie was great and your video really puts the dots on the I’s and your video crosses all the T’s. Thank you, please show more world war ops. Thank you Bob

    • @Roz-y2d
      @Roz-y2d Год назад

      I think you mean “the man that never was”. Great film.

  • @fundorgon
    @fundorgon 2 года назад +2

    Hey mate just wanted to say I just saw you on Rationality Rules and was super impressed, instant subscribe.

  • @NelemNaru
    @NelemNaru 2 года назад +12

    You're great at telling stories, kept me captivated all 19 minutes

  • @icns01
    @icns01 Год назад +1

    Truly fascinating! Reminds me of that quote:
    "The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst" - Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • @55Quirll
    @55Quirll 2 года назад +3

    I remember watching the original movie about this some decades ago and the book 'The Man who never was', A great movie and concept on how to fool a foreign enemy. I am watching the movie Operation Mince Meat but miss the 1956 movie with William Boyd, just showing my age I guess, being 67, you did a great review on a great operation in history. I came here from Low Fruit with Rationality Rules, I think you both are great. Thanks for a great video and I subscribed. Take care and stay well.

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  2 года назад

      Thank you very much!
      Glad you've been enjoying our work over there.
      I watched the new film pretty recently myself and experienced a mix of enjoying the actors and all the little details they included but also being frustrated at the additions they made for drama, because somehow there wasn't enough.
      And I sighed greatly at the stupid buzzsaw watch. 🤦‍♂️

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 2 года назад

      @@castlesandcuriosities Yes, seems many movies of today do that. Surprised to see the actor Kingsmen, from the bar fight. 👍
      Would take the same to fool Joe B. in Amerca.

  • @Dantriecus
    @Dantriecus 2 года назад +3

    Came here from Low Fruit, intrigued by the video subject, stayed because the delivery was superb. Genuinely really well put together. Well done! Instant subscribe from me!

  • @kenstevens5065
    @kenstevens5065 2 года назад +4

    A great presentation, accepted historical facts, no spin, no political bias. The mainstream media have a lot to learn from presentations like this. Keep up the good work.

  • @waynesharp576
    @waynesharp576 2 года назад +4

    What a fabulous explanation of the operation; had me riveted 👏

  • @Wago1995
    @Wago1995 2 года назад +5

    Great video, I hope the next one is sooner! :)

  • @stevenpayne984
    @stevenpayne984 2 года назад +1

    This just popped up on my You Tube feed ........... I knew the story, but it's nice to sit back and just listen.
    One of these days I'm going to have to get you to help me set up my own channel.

  • @lucbourhis3142
    @lucbourhis3142 2 года назад +4

    I had heard of the story as everybody but I was unaware of so many of the details! Great video!

  • @nymeroe
    @nymeroe 2 года назад +3

    Came to your channel after enjoying the low fruit series. Glad I did. This was fascinating! The bit about searching for used underwear was simultaneously hilarious and illuminating. The lengths these people went to, to make sure this mission succeeded. I feel like in the digital age it kind of seems less impressive what spies with all the tech gadgets do than in the past when they had to manage all this the hard way.

  • @deotank
    @deotank 2 года назад +1

    The long awaited video! Great quality as always

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtis 2 года назад +1

    Excellently presented!

  • @mikdavies5027
    @mikdavies5027 2 года назад +1

    The whole operation summed up perfectly! Many thanks.

  • @grahampaulkendrick7845
    @grahampaulkendrick7845 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for this, Reece. I love the '56 film. Another great deception story is 'I Was Monty's Double'.

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  2 года назад +1

      I will check it out, thanks for the suggestion!

    • @paulwilliams8573
      @paulwilliams8573 2 года назад

      Played by the real guy who really impersonated Monty in North Africa during the war.

    • @paulwilliams8573
      @paulwilliams8573 2 года назад

      Played by the real guy who really impersonated Monty in North Africa during the war.

    • @grahampaulkendrick7845
      @grahampaulkendrick7845 2 года назад

      @@paulwilliams8573 Indeed ... and in real life he was recruited by David Niven.

  • @laurajarrell6187
    @laurajarrell6187 2 года назад +1

    I haven't watched this all yet, but I'd heard of this some years ago. A poor man who never knew how important he would become. He gets respected top late poor guy. Great report, alot more! 👍🥰💖✌

  • @chrismccartney8668
    @chrismccartney8668 Год назад +1

    Great true story and well put together as o have always believed fact is stranger than fiction

  • @Ron4991
    @Ron4991 2 года назад +1

    Thanks a lot mate !! That was really something of a story from that horrible war..
    Your communication skills are excellent. Keep it going :)

  • @billschild3371
    @billschild3371 2 года назад +2

    Came back and watched this again as I really enjoyed it the first time. Do you have any idea when you are going to release another video as you're such a good story teller.

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  2 года назад +1

      Thank you very much!
      I have my next one in the works, script is almost finished. A timeframe is almost impossible to give unfortunately as I am only able to work on things fairly infrequently. That damn real life thing gets in the way. 😅 all I can say is, its coming!

    • @billschild3371
      @billschild3371 2 года назад +1

      @@castlesandcuriosities Well I am really looking forward to it. If it is as good as your current collection it should be another excellent tale.

  • @Aiza1
    @Aiza1 2 года назад +2

    One of the most fascinating and satisfying ops of WWII

  • @billschild3371
    @billschild3371 2 года назад

    Great content. Didn't even make it half way through before I subscribed.

  • @colinellicott9737
    @colinellicott9737 2 года назад +1

    So Mussolini was mincemeat. Good. Very good Glyndwa. Awesome tale of feignt. Thx
    BTW - I believe it's "Hook, line, and sinker" ;)

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  2 года назад +1

      😆 Odly the message they sent was indeed "rod, line and sinker" no idea why is it was sent like that.

  • @ElKartoffelbreii
    @ElKartoffelbreii 2 года назад +5

    Please don't forget the "Jesus walked among dinosaurs"-video

  • @OtterMunchy
    @OtterMunchy 2 года назад +3

    Confiscated Underpants would be a good grunge band name.

  • @OtterMunchy
    @OtterMunchy 2 года назад +3

    Are there more Stone Circles, like Stonehenge, around the UK? Or other interesting Druidic artifacts?

    • @DavidSmith-vr1nb
      @DavidSmith-vr1nb Год назад +2

      Avebury would be one. There are several others, and some hillside chalk images.

  • @fdempsey3859
    @fdempsey3859 2 года назад

    Please keep up the LowFruit series with Stephen, you two are great! Awesome video here too. Like someone else mentioned, I’m fully expecting the Jesus walked along dinosaurs video…

  • @LevelJoy
    @LevelJoy 2 года назад +6

    Glad to know there's a historical and herioc aspect to colleges being the main exporters of used underwear.

  • @lucbourhis3142
    @lucbourhis3142 2 года назад +2

    Love the T-shirt: Mk VII ! The tank, right?

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  2 года назад

      Yeah the Churchill.
      I'm not a fashionable man. My T-shirts are all war stuff haha.

  • @michael-gs6kh
    @michael-gs6kh 2 года назад +1

    I enjoyed your video more than the remake of the film with Colin Firth (which I saw last night)

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  2 года назад

      Haha. Well, thanks very much!
      I enjoyed the film... I just also have a lot of complaints. 😆

  • @djhalling
    @djhalling Год назад +1

    "Born ... in Aberbargo-ed, Wales"
    *Cringes in Welsh*
    Otherwise, a great and very interesting video.

    • @castlesandcuriosities
      @castlesandcuriosities  Год назад +2

      I tried! 😆 I was going to say Im not great with pronunciation outside English but if I'm totally honest, I don't think I can't grant myself that much 😅

    • @djhalling
      @djhalling Год назад +2

      @@castlesandcuriosities It would be something like AberBARgoid as a phonetic pronunciation.

  • @DavidSmith-vr1nb
    @DavidSmith-vr1nb Год назад +1

    Cholmondeley is absolutely the correct spelling for that name. How else would you spell it? 😜

  • @SnakeAndTurtleQigong
    @SnakeAndTurtleQigong 2 года назад +4

    I love all of these impossibly English names! They sound fake.

  • @HaosCosmic
    @HaosCosmic 9 месяцев назад +1

    If the teachers had the same passion, well then kids will not put tags in CoD or other fps games things as "Gaza" or some other organizations that not want humans to be better, but to destroy all that was, is and will be... Guess "his-story" comes back , again and again. Wars are immortal for the rats.

  • @tedarcher9120
    @tedarcher9120 2 года назад +1

    Because there is no mincemeat in mincemeat...

  • @carown
    @carown 2 года назад

    You omitted to say Germany lost the war the day they lost the battle of Stalingrad and how Russia saved Europe.