WW2 Camouflage

[Brizpete]

Apologies if this is not the correct place to ask.....

I am led to believe that during WW2 the was a harbour/dock that had been camouflaged by 'dummy' buildings/ships so that when bombers dropped their payload from high-above the target looked real whereas the bombs were actually dropping harmlessly into the sea.

Can anybody shed any further details or have any references that I might follow ?

Thanks.

[shaneystar2]

Any help ?
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/back ground/fortitudes.htm
In Kent they also had fake army camps around Maidstone and Canterbury, with thousands of partly concealed dummy tanks and aircraft.
There was also a chap called Jasper Maskelyne who In was involved in an operation which diverted German bombers from the port of Alexandria by setting up a fake harbour in a nearby bay; this involved constructing dummy buildings, a dummy lighthouse and even dummy anti-aircraft batteries which fired thunderflashes.

Just Google something like "dummy harbours camouflage world war two" and lots of stuff comes up.

[Aquagility]

There were certainly dummy airfields. Google WW II dummy targets. Lots of gen there.

[Aquagility]

Sorry, SS2. Too busy googling myself to notice your post.

[Brizpete]

Thanks both of you. I had found the link given and tried Googling DUMMY HARBOUR etc but got too much Pearl Harbour or other stuff.

I thought the Harbour was not in Britain so maybe the Alexandria link will prove fruitful - I had half a thought that the deception was by the Germans rather than Allies.

Thanks.