The WWII action comedy is heavily fictionalized.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Guy Ritchie's latest spy action comedy, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, explores the first special forces mission in history, which laid the foundation for many of the modern special forces units in operation today.
Why Operation Postmaster Was Such A Risk For Winston Churchill It's mentioned that it could cost him his job as Prime Minister. If it became common knowledge that Winston Churchill sidestepped not only the conventional rules of warfare but also his country's own military advisers and leaders, it could very well have meant the end of his tenure as Prime Minister. If the true origins of Operation Postmaster were discovered, Churchill would be the one blamed for the entire ordeal.
Babs Olusanmokun's character Mr. Heron may be a stand-in for real SOE agent Richard Lippett, who got a job with a shipping company with business offices on the island of Santa Isabel in Fernando Po in advance of Operation Postmaster. Major Gus March-Phillipps died just a few months after Operation Postmaster during Operation Aquatint, a raid along the coast of occupied France. Graham Hayes survived that mission, but he was captured and eventually executed. Anders Lassen became a highly-decorated soldier for Great Britain, but was killed in 1945 during the liberation of Italy in the final months of WWII.
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