New study of Second World War 'Starfish' decoy sites in Staffordshire just published. Decoy sites built along German radio pathfinding beam tracks used controlled fires and lighting effects to trick the Luftwaffe into bombing open countryside instead of industry. https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2025/february/decoy-shelter/world-war-two.php
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K.D. Wisniewski, J.K. Pringle, P. Doyle, N. Barton, I.G. Stimpson & L. Hobson, 2025: Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in
North Staffordshire, UK, Journal of Conflict Archaeology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15740773.2025.2464568