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What special WTC is this?
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What special WTC is this?
david f- AMS Treasurer
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Age : 73
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Tom(ADMIN)- AMS Forum Owner
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Location : Nevada, USA
Do I read that correctly...'total weight 400lbs'?
Deep Diver (Fred)- AMS member
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Could make a good beer vat.
david f- AMS Treasurer
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No clues, but I wouldn't put beer in it!
david f- AMS Treasurer
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Give up?
(Answers next week.)
(Answers next week.)
Tom(ADMIN)- AMS Forum Owner
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I'm guessing it's of WW1 vintage?
david f- AMS Treasurer
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It is actually the container that went on HMS Seraph as part of Operation 'Mincemeat'.
It contained the corpse of 'Major Martin' who was set adrift off the Spanish coast bearing secret, faked documents. It formed a significant and very successful deception operation which saved many lives in WW2.
(You may remember the story from the film "The Man who never was.")
The drawing is taken from a very interesting paperback "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Mcintyre. Not much about submarines but you learn a lot about the origins of James Bond and Ping Pong! (There is a photo in the book of the designer of the "WTC" Charles Fraser Smith who looks exactly like (and was the basis for) the Q character in the Bond films.)
It contained the corpse of 'Major Martin' who was set adrift off the Spanish coast bearing secret, faked documents. It formed a significant and very successful deception operation which saved many lives in WW2.
(You may remember the story from the film "The Man who never was.")
The drawing is taken from a very interesting paperback "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Mcintyre. Not much about submarines but you learn a lot about the origins of James Bond and Ping Pong! (There is a photo in the book of the designer of the "WTC" Charles Fraser Smith who looks exactly like (and was the basis for) the Q character in the Bond films.)
Tom(ADMIN)- AMS Forum Owner
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Well done, that man!!
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