Anonymous ID: 50a1db July 19, 2026, 6:06 p.m. No.24846460   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6483

The Krupp night decoy site was a German decoy-site of the Krupp steelworks in Essen. RAF Bomber Command did not correctly identify the decoy installation until 1943, by which time its bombers had dropped 64 percent of all high-explosive bombs and 75 percent of all incendiaries on the decoy rather than the real site.

Anonymous ID: 50a1db July 19, 2026, 6:14 p.m. No.24846483   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>24846460

>64 percent of all high-explosive bombs and 75 percent of all incendiaries

that's pretty damned effective for a decoy

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_site

Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate burning British cities. The aim was to divert German night bombers from their intended targets so they would drop their ordnance over the countryside. The sites were an extension of Colonel John Turner's decoy programme for airfields and factories (code named "Q" Sites, probably by analogy with Q-ships)

Initially very crude, the fires were controlled from a nearby concrete pillbox. The theory was that after a first wave of bombers dropped on the real target, the decoy would light fires to simulate the previous raid for further waves to home in on.