More information: K.D. Wisniewski et al, Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK, Journal of Conflict Archaeology (2025). DOI: 10 ...

Operation Starfish — Baddesley Common Decoy Site and others in Hampshire and further afield and the Servicemen and Women who worked on them in World War 2 Until recently very few people knew ...

The study, titled "Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK," focused on three of four known sites near Stoke-on-Trent: Keele ...

All three decoy sites – Keele, Beech and Caverswall – were built as a 'permanent Starfish' sites in August 1941 and remained active until April 1943. ...

In the 1940s, the British government built a network of decoy sites designed to look like bombed urban and industrial areas. They were called "Starfish sites" and were meant to divert German ...

Keele University and Goldsmiths, University of London, estimate our forgotten 237 Special Fire sites, a plane dubbed 'Starfish', took 968 tonnes of German bombs destined for 81 real towns ...

Researchers inspect WW2 "Starfish" ... By the end of the conflict, there were 237 Starfish sites across Britain protecting 81 target towns, cities and factories.

Message 1 - Decoy sites Posted on: 10 July 2005 by MissClaudi. My father, Tom Merritt,who was in the RAF, was involved in Decoy sites, and one of these was at Gumber farm in West Sussex.

Researchers inspect WW2 "Starfish" ... By the end of the conflict, there were 237 Starfish sites across Britain protecting 81 target towns, cities and factories.