Maxstoke Permanent Starfish site
Description of this historic site
The site of a fire based decoy bombing installation known as a permanent Starfish from the Second World War. Night time blazes were created to confuse enemy aircraft and draw them away from their real target. Documentary evidence gives this grid reference west of Maxstoke.
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Notes about this historic site
1 The site of a fire based bombing decoy site from the Second World War known as a permanent Starfish. Fire based decoys were set up following the bombing of Coventry in November 1940 to protect urban areas, in this case Birmingham. A variety of effects were devised to simulate fires such as those from incendiary bombs.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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