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A blast from the past...

Starfish sites: The secret war effort of British aerial bombing decoys
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-starfish- ... ffort.html

quote:
In 1940, the British government implemented a network of decoy sites to mislead German bombers away from strategic targets. The broader decoy effort across the UK included dummy airfields, though the decoys in the study were meant to look like industrial sites.

These decoys, particularly "Starfish" sites, simulated bombed urban and industrial areas to attract Luftwaffe attacks away from high-priority targets like airfields and manufacturing hubs.
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...I hope someone is trying to get that/them preserved. I'd be willing to throw a few bucks that way.

Mike

I hadn't really realised the bombers got that far over, that's basically the Welsh border.

They got a LOT further than that. Cardiff. Glasgow. Belfast. All heavily bombed.

Yup, blew up my mums next door neighbours house in Barry

They also came from bases in Norway.

OK it's the daily fail, but good map. I kind of knew this since Liverpool was bombed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... ar-II.html

David Newton wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:41 pm They got a LOT further than that. Cardiff. Glasgow. Belfast. All heavily bombed.

This one’s just down the road from you.

Coventry had 3 Starfish sites, of which one partially survives.