Record Details
| NHER Number: | 13552 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two bombing decoy site |
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Summary
This was the approximate site of East Bradenham dummy airfield where landing lights were used to trick German planes into thinking it was a real airfield. It was in use between 1939 and 1945.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 937 075 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90NW |
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| Parish: | BRADENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Approximate site of East Bradenham dummy airfield 1939-45 (landing lights only).
See (S1).
Grid reference corrected in 1988 edition of (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 10 June 1988.
Also known as Saham Grove, or (in error) West Bradenham, there is still apparently confusion over the exact extent of the site. It is believed that the Germans knew about its use as a wooden bomb is said to have been dropped on it. (But this story occurs all over England!)
E. Rose (NLA), 17 May 1993.
(S2) places this in Holme Hale parish at TF 912 070. (S1) is more probably correct, one would think.
E. Rose (NLA) 4 March 1997.
Monument Types
- BOMBING DECOY (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1973. Airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk. Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum. Part 1. |
| <S2> | Serial: Dobinson, C.S.. 1996. Twentieth Century Fortifications in England.. Vol III, p 99. |
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