decoy

all that remains of a decoy airfield  small bunker type construction with a searchlight mounted on top  and a small room at the back to house a gennerator fires would have been light at night at this location to fool the german bombers to target here instead of  the real site a few miles away...

Nazeing Decoy Airfield One of World War II's carefully kept secrets was the building of dummy or decoy airfields. Nazeing Common was one of many sites, designed to be a decoy for nearby North Weald airfield. The lighting was mounted on wooden poles of varying lengths, so as to keep the...

Every time I go on an explore my two youngest look at the photos and I hear "Dad, Dad, can we come with you?" So today I decided it was time, armed with a torch, their £20 Argos cameras, and their Grandad, I took them to the decoy airfield at Nazeing History taken from...