[Tijeras_Slim]

Wow

[CougarGA7]

That is pretty cool isn't it. There were a lot of efforts taken during WWII to make large facilities look like something they are not. I saw a lot of this when I was working on a study of Jasper Maskelyne and his work during the Second World War. Unfortunately, a lot of the details attributed to him personally were not factual, there were several incredible efforts made.

One of my favorites is the Q-Site. Particularly the QF-Sites set up in Britain and North Africa. These site were made to look like a British airfield from the air that had already been hit by bombers. German bomber following first waves would spot these sites and drop their ordinance on this fake airfield (needless to say this illusion was a nighttime effect).

[Constitution Day]

That is AMAZING! I don’t think that I have ever seen these photos before.

I am really interested in the QF Sites you mention in North Africa, since my grandfather was stationed there in WW2.

I recall reading about how Maskelyne hid the Suez Canal in plain sight with the spinning array of mirrors. Cougar, is that story true or apocryphal?