History Channel - Dead Mens Secrets Set 2 (2002) Part 1 Disaster at Sea HMS Dasher - Who Was 'The Man who Never Was'?

Dead men don't tell tales - or do they? Are there forensic clues left in the sands of time? Are there traces of archive film which even today are waiting to unveil their grisly secret? Not all the captivating and fascinating stories of military escapades in the 20th Century have been fully examined and many fascinating insights are still to be revealed and told. These have been known until now as DEADMEN'S SECRETS. Who really was 'The Man Who Never Was'? This and many other fascinating questions are answered in this pivotal series entitled DEADMEN'S SECRETS. With newly discovered archive film and new state of the art 3D computer graphics the series sets out to answer some of the most baffling questions and war mysteries of the 20th Century. What was the truth about Odessa File and whatever happened to Raoul Wallenberg? What did the Oslo Report reveal and who wrote it? And how close was Hitler to developing the atomic bomb at the end of World War II? Some of the answers are both frightening and unexpected. With the release of new Government information on both sides of the Atlantic it is now possible to painstakingly reconstruct some of the most famous mysteries of recent military history. DEADMEN'S SECRETS is the first serious attempt this Century to lay some of the last Century's most puzzling ghosts to rest.

Part 1 Disaster at Sea HMS Dasher - Who Was 'The Man who Never Was'?

Operation Mincemeat a corpse floated off the coast of Spain carrying battle plans in a briefcase chained to his wrist. But the corpse was a plant, the plans were fake, and the Germans were totally fooled. What was the true identity of the mysterious body, and how could it be linked to the mysterious sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Dasher off the coast of Scotland - and the loss of nearly 500 sailors lives? It came without any warning. On Saturday, March 27th, 1943, the HMS Dasher, a British aircraft carrier, has completed two days of take off and landing exercises and was steaming to port just an hour and a half away. Suddenly, there was a terrific explosion, shaking the ship and propelling the two-ton landing crane 60 feet into the air. Within minutes, the Dasher was sinking rapidly at the stern and the crew of 528 men were struggling to survive. The fate of the carrier has been shrouded in secrecy for over half a century and, even today, many of the families of the 379 men who perished do not know what happened. What is clear is that the survivors, floating in the cold water awaiting rescue from the many ships steaming toward them, were engulfed in flames as the sea, coated in diesel and aviation fuel, caught fire, killing most men and complicating the rescue. Drawing on the memories of survivors and evidence from the wreck, DISASTER AT SEA challenges the official reports and exposes schemes of secrecy.

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