Military Deception played a pivotal role in World War II, with both sides employing various strategies to mislead and confuse their adversaries. In the midst of this global conflict, AGENT GARBO emerged as one of the most remarkable and successful deception campaigns of the war.
Agent Garbo: The Greatest Double Agent of WWII – (1941-1945)
Hanns Scharff: The Luftwaffe Nicest “Master Interrogator” 1942-45
Hanns Scharff was a Master Interrogator working for The Luftwaffe at Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Beam Me Up, Scotty! – 1920-2005
You probably have heard the famous catchphrase and misquotation of ‘Beam me up, Scotty’, popularized by Captain Kirk in the Original Star Trek Series by Gene Roddenberry in 1966.
What you might not know is that Montgomery Scott, the Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise, led a company of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach on D-Day.
Simo Häyhä ‘White Death’: The Deadliest Sniper in History 1939-1940
Simo Häyhä was a Finnish shepherd, and one of the deadliest elite snipers in history, if not the deadliest one. With a tally of 542 soldiers wounded, and from those, at least 259 deadly casualties, he was nicknamed “The White Death” by his enemies.