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- Starfish_site abstract "Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate burning British cities. The aim was to divert 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). Following the bombing, and near destruction, of Coventry in November 1940, Turner was tasked with creating decoys for seven major cities.Turner referred to the new sites as "Special Fire" or "SF". However, one early site (near Bristol) was given the name "Starfish", which subsequently became used for all of the decoys. The sites were constructed around 4 miles (6.4 km) from their protection target, and at least 1 mile (1.6 km) from any other settlement. They consisted of elaborate light arrays and fires, controlled from a nearby bunker and laid out to simulate a fire-bombed town. By the end of the war there were 237 decoys protecting 81 towns and cities around the country.Starfish sites did attract the attention of enemy bombers; one estimate is that around 968 tons of ordnance was dropped on the decoys. Later archaeological excavation of the original "Starfish", in the Mendip Hills, found no evidence of bomb craters.".
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- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLink Pillbox_(military).
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- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "'Q' site".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Operation Starfish".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Q Type bombing decoy".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Q-decoy site".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Q-station".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Starfish decoy site".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Starfish site".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "Starfish".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "bombing decoy".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "decoy fire beacons".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "decoy site".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "starfish decoy site".
- Starfish_site wikiPageWikiLinkText "starfish site".
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- Starfish_site subject Category:Battle_of_Britain.
- Starfish_site subject Category:Military_deception_during_World_War_II.
- Starfish_site subject Category:United_Kingdom_home_front_during_World_War_II.
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- Starfish_site comment "Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate burning British cities. The aim was to divert 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).".
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