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Brizpete | 10:46 Tue 23rd Jan 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Apologies if this is not the correct place to ask.....

I am led to believe that during WW2 the was a harbour/dock that had been camouflaged by 'dummy' buildings/ships so that when bombers dropped their payload from high-above the target looked real whereas the bombs were actually dropping harmlessly into the sea.

Can anybody shed any further details or have any references that I might follow ?

Thanks.
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http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/back ground/fortitudes.htm
In Kent they also had fake army camps around Maidstone and Canterbury, with thousands of partly concealed dummy tanks and aircraft.
There was also a chap called Jasper Maskelyne who In was involved in an operation which diverted German bombers from the port of Alexandria by setting up a fake harbour in a nearby bay; this involved constructing dummy buildings, a dummy lighthouse and even dummy anti-aircraft batteries which fired thunderflashes.

Just Google something like "dummy harbours camouflage world war two" and lots of stuff comes up.
There were certainly dummy airfields. Google WW II dummy targets. Lots of gen there.
Sorry, SS2. Too busy googling myself to notice your post.
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Thanks both of you. I had found the link given and tried Googling DUMMY HARBOUR etc but got too much Pearl Harbour or other stuff.

I thought the Harbour was not in Britain so maybe the Alexandria link will prove fruitful - I had half a thought that the deception was by the Germans rather than Allies.

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