1 Hunningham lighting decoy site in the QL programme for the Coventry area. It was set up to simulate the lights of a marshalling yard (parallel railway sidings) and so ...
The site of a lighting bombing decoy installation from the Second World War designed to confuse the enemy into dropping their bombs in the wrong place. Documentary evidence places it 800m southwest of Hunningham.
1 A Permanent Starfish site (‘Starfish’ from Special Fires). Fire based decoys were set up following the bombing of Coventry in November 1940 to protect urban areas, in this case ...
The site of a fire based bombing decoy installation from the Second World War known as a Starfish. Night time fires were created to confuse enemy aircraft and to draw them away from their real target. Documentary evidence gives this grid reference 900m SW of Hunningham.