<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jasper Maskelyne&lt;/strong&gt; (29 September 1902 – 15 March 1973) was a British &lt;a class="mw-redirect" title= "Stage magician" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_magician"&gt;stage magician&lt;/a&gt; in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of &lt;a title= "Nevil Maskelyne (magician)" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Maskelyne_(magician)"&gt;Nevil Maskelyne&lt;/a&gt; and a grandson of &lt;a title= "John Nevil Maskelyne" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nevil_Maskelyne"&gt;John Nevil Maskelyne&lt;/a&gt;. He is most remembered for his accounts of his work for the British military during the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War"&gt;Second World War&lt;/a&gt;, in which he claimed to have created large-scale ruses, deception, and &lt;a title="Camouflage" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage"&gt;camouflage&lt;/a&gt; in an effort to defeat the &lt;a class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis"&gt;Nazis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup id= "cite_ref-1" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Maskelyne#cite_note-1"&gt;&lt;span class="cite-bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="cite-bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Jasper Maskelyne (29 September 1902 – 15 March 1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered for his accounts of his work for the British military during the Second World War, in which he claimed to have created large-scale ruses, deception, and camouflage in an effort to defeat the Nazis.[1]