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Opened: <= 1942 Closed: => 1942 Airfield decoyed: RAF Bottesford English Heritage Site Reference: Q139B Approximate location of site centre: BNG SK805342 (Streetmap) Pastscape record: 1466044 The Belvoir Q site was a Second World War night-time bombing decoy that was built to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Bottesford. This Q-type decoy displayed a series of lights simulating an active airfield. It is referenced as being in use during 1942. By 1968 the site had been given over to agricultural use and no features of the decoy survive on site. Further Q sites for RAF Bottesford were located at Tithby (Nottinghamshire) and Foston (Lincolnshire). 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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