It could be called fake news - but Britain's little known 'decoy' towns and airfields cleverly lured German night bombers away from their real targets.

John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot of the iconic Battle of Britain, passed away peacefully on 17 March 2025 at the age of 105. Paddy Hemingway, one of a number known as ‘the Few’ and ...

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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.

As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted ...

It was a plan designed to fool Hitler's bombers - four pieces of land in north Staffordshire transformed to look like fake airfields ... To trick the WW2 Luftwaffe into bombing open countryside ...

As it was, the aerial battle was won by fine margins, and owed more to Hitler’s mistake in switching his bombers from targeting airfields to cities. This battle, according to Andreas Hillgruber ...

The biennial Aero India trade show took place in Bengaluru between 10-14 February. NEELAM MATHEWS reports on a show that ...