In WW2, women filled all sorts of important roles, from secretaries to spies. Many of these stories have been buried in HIStory, but in this current wave of feminism, it isn’t hard to find a good story about a badass woman in a war.
“Operation Mincemeat” was a British MI5 plot devised to fool Hitler into pulling back his troops from Sicily, thereby allowing the allies to secure it and turn the war hard in their favor.
There were a number of women who were essential to the success of this ruse, and in this episode we cover a few of them.
Here’s a link to the photo that deceived Hitler, and my blog about her:
https://kellymcclain.blogspot.com/2025/07/operation-mincemeat-women-behind-plot.html
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