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3 unusual facts about Norman Jewell


Glyndwr Michael

On 30 April, Lt. Jewell, captain of the submarine Seraph, read the 39th Psalm and Michael's body was gently pushed into the sea where the tide would bring it ashore off Huelva on the Spanish Atlantic coast.

Norman Jewell

He had never performed a burial at sea, but aptly chose Psalm 39.

As part of the ruse, the corpse of a vagrant named Glyndwr Michael was dressed as a Royal Marines officer and briefcase, stuffed with dummy secret papers, chained to its wrist.



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