Always True Crime23 Aug 2018

#40 - The Fascinating Life, Death and After-Life of Glyndwr Michael (Operation Mincemeat)

On Tuesday 26th January 1943, somewhere at the back of King’s Cross station, in an unknown derelict warehouse, Glyndwr Michael; a nobody, a nothing, a homeless man became a hero, and although he saved my life, your life and all of our lives, 80 years on, his name his hardly known.

Date: Tuesday 26th January 1943
Location: King's Cross, London, N1 (exact location unknown)
Victims: 1 (Glyndwr Michael)
Operation Mincemeat

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