US troops advancing near Hill 609 in Tunisia, 28 April 1943 (US Army Center of Military History)
75 Years Ago—Apr. 30, 1943: In Tunisia, US II Corps takes Hill 609 en route to Mateur.
Operation Mincemeat: sub HMS Seraph puts corpse dressed as officer into the sea off Spain, with phony papers detailing Allied invasion of Greece—as a diversion from the actual planned invasion of Sicily; the Spanish send the papers to the Germans, who fall for the ruse.
