In May 1942 a Civil Starfish type bombing decoy, composed of an irregular array of blazing baskets, was erected in a field in the angle between Cane Wood and Thornden Wood, north of Brittoncourt Farm, Hackington. (Military documents may have misrendered this ‘Hacklington’). This installation was designed to mimic unguarded lighting in a built-up area and thus draw fire away from Canterbury. Canterbury would suffer extensively in air-raids the following month - none seem to have been deflected as far north as Hackington, however
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Unknown
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Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit :

Dobson C., 01/01/00, Fields of Deception: Britain’s Bombing Decoys of World War II (Bibliographic reference). SKE15403.

Dobson C., 01/01/00, Fields of Deception: Britain’s Bombing Decoys of World War II (Bibliographic reference). Ske15403.