It could be called fake news - but Britain's little known 'decoy' towns and airfields cleverly lured German night bombers away from their real targets.

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history buffs. British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex ...

A man in Germany has found the crash site where an RAF airman from Oldham was killed during WWII– and now he's trying to find his relatives. Sgt Joe Hilton Halliwell, from Shaw, was just 22 years old ...

In this video, German He-111 Bombers take heavy damage on a bombing run to hit an allied airfield. But RAF Spitfires as well as anti-aircraft fire do everything they can to take them down.

Three Allied aerial bombing decoy sites from World War II were recently investigated, uncovering significant variations in ...

A wildlife trust says it hopes to create a memorial garden at a former World War Two airfield. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust ...

‘Nazis, U-boats And The Battle For The Atlantic’, made for the BBC by Alleycats TV, starts on BBC iPlayer and BBC1 NI on ...

British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex airfields on 24 March 1945, to be dropped directly on top of the German lines at the River Rhine. Paratroopers and gliders packed ...

Established in 1942, the airfield was operational until 1946 ... Since 2020, mysterious bales of rubber from a World War II German cargo ship have been washing up along the state's beaches ...

The broader decoy effort across the UK included dummy airfields ... up to 5% of German bombing efforts. In the study, "Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...