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Decoy Bunker

            Knew this was up Langcraigs been intending on taking a look for a while so I parked up at Overtoun House and took a wander.

A "SF" or Starfish decoy was a defence designed to fool the german bombers who were planning to bomb a town or city.
These decoys were placed a couple of miles into the countryside away from towns or industry.

In a typical bomb raid, remembering that navigation during WW2 was still by a navigator using a map and whatever he could see from plane windows, a "pathfinder" usually would precede the main waves of bombers and drop Incendiary bombs and flares to start fires which the following bombers would then home in on and drop there.
A Starfish decoy would light false fires designed to resemble a burning town and fool the bombers into dropping there instead.

The decoys achieved some success but Greenock, Dumbarton, Cardross and Clydebank were all successfully attacked at various points in 1941.

Taken on: February 19, 2019

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7M2, f/13.0, 2 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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