A story on the disaster of the HMS Dasher is mentioned in the Ealing Times today and can be read HERE
Part of the story relates to "The Man Who Never Was" You'll all remember that great movie. Here's the part about that:
THE story of HMS Dasher has sparked a number of theories and possibilities about other mysterious war-time happenings.
The celebrated story of The Man Who Never Was, is one such piece of intrigue: It is widely known that during the Second World War a body was placed in a British submarine in the waters off the south of Spain in May 1943 in an operation to mislead the Germans into believing the Allied landings to clear the Axis forces out of Southern Europe would be focused on Greece and not Sicily.
The body had been given a name and an identity in order to persuade the Germans this had been someone qualified to carry the vital messages contained in the accompanying briefcase.
These decoy plans diverted the Nazi effort toward Greece and saved thousands of Allied lives.
For students of this classic tale, the true identity of The Man Who Never Was has long been a source of fascination.
This book opens up the strong possibility that one of the bodies from HMS Dasher occupied that crucial, if posthumous, role.
Officials at the Ministry of Defence have, however, completely discounted the theory raised in The Secrets of HMS Dasher.
