Why British Airfields Built Fake Cowsheds—and the Luftwaffe Never Noticed
Автор: WW2 Recode
Загружено: 2025-11-03
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Between 1940 and 1944, as the Luftwaffe launched relentless bombing raids over Britain, the Royal Air Force turned the English countryside into a masterpiece of deception. Across counties like Kent, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire, real airfields were camouflaged as quiet farms — complete with fake barns, hedgerows, haystacks, and painted roads.
From the air, these sites looked like nothing more than sleepy rural fields, but inside those “cowsheds” waited fully armed Spitfires and Hurricanes, ready to scramble at a moment’s notice. German reconnaissance planes flew over countless times — and never realized they were looking straight at RAF bases.
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