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Trivia Facts (2)
What secret OSS operation parachuted agents directly into mainland Japan to prepare for a possible Allied invasion?
Operation Balsam — OSS operatives were infiltrated into Japan in the final months of the war through neutral intermediaries
How did the US Marine Corps use Navajo Code Talkers, and why was the code never broken?
Native Navajo speakers transmitted battlefield communications in their complex language, which had no written form and was spoken by fewer than 30 non-Navajos worldwide — the code added another layer of code words on top of the language itself
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The Man Who Tricked Hitler: Operation Mincemeat
How a dead Welsh vagrant became a British major and fooled Nazi high command into misdirecting their defenses.
The Channel Dash: Germany's Audacious Humiliation of the Royal Navy
In February 1942, three major German warships sailed from Brest through the English Channel in broad daylight — past British coastlines, past the RAF, past the Royal Navy — and reached Germany virtually unscathed.