Grave of a man who never was (2015)
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FUSAG on the other hand was spectacularly successful. But for a far higher input cost. Maybe this one's biggest effect was to help justify the investment in FUSAG?
When I first read about the story when I was a teen, I believed without question that it made a huge difference.
Now, I'm not so sure. It's enough to look at a map to see that invading sardinia doesn't really give you much in terms of invading italy. Perhaps just a closer airbase. But they had north africa, malta, and not spain…
Sardinia was an important air base for the Axis campaigns in North Africa, so it's invasion could have been interpreted by the Axis as way of degrading the Axis forces rather than a launch pad for an invasion of Italy.
It's a good watch, if you're into the Tinker Taylor sort of vibe.
Interestingly, it is believed that Ian Fleming played a part in its planning too. Appropriately cloak & dagger.
Starting from scratch on the backside of the slab is easy, carving into current whitespace is easy and cheap, grinding away the current inscription and carving into the pristine layer below might be a good solution if the stone is thick enough and/or not all of the old inscription needs to be erased.
It look like it was whitespace there, given the height of the letters, but that's a lot of whitespace. I can't find earlier photos of it, though.
Having that much whitespace would make sense if they'd planned to add it later, though it would also be a tell.