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Mablethorpe Q Site | ||||||
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Opened: <=1942 Closed: =>1942 Airfield decoyed: RAF Manby English Heritage Site Reference: Q161A Approximate location of site centre: BNG TF477845 (Streetmap) Pastscape record: 1466181 The Mablethorpe Q site was a Second World War night-time bombing decoy that was built to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Manby and was in use at least in 1942. By 1966 the decoy site had been given over to agricultural use and no features of the decoy survive. Further decoy sites for RAF Manby were located at Hagnaby, Frithville and Sibsey. Q-sites operated at night and tried to lure the enemy with sets of lights arranged to look like a real operational airfield, set out over up to a mile and a half of countryside. Q sites generally had a night-time staff of two who would check lighting before dusk and await nightfall in a shelter. See further reading on dummy and decoy sites. |
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