Discover the covert truth of the Starfish decoys and the WWII military history behind the Luftwaffe's greatest failure. In the winter of 1940, Colonel John Turner and a secret group from Shepperton Film Studios weaponized light and heat to develop a "Shadow Map" of Britain that conserved countless lives from German firestorms.
TL; DR: This documentary checks out how British engineers utilized motion picture set designers and electronic warfare (Aspirin and Meacon) to "bend" German navigational beams. By constructing 237 decoy sites throughout the UK, they deceived Nazi bombers into striking empty fields instead of critical industrial targets like Bristol and London.
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0:00 - The Sirens Were Late: The Phantom Horizon. 2:15 - Pillar 1: The Night London Need To've Passed away. 9:45 - Pillar 2: The Fire Engineer-- Colonel Turner's Issue Set. 17:20 - Pillar 3: The Committee That Didn't Exist. 25:10 - Pillar 4: Anatomy of a False City. 33:45 - Pillar 5: First Blood-- Bristol's Phantom Blaze. 41:30 - Pillar 6: Scaling the Impression-- The 237-Site Network. 49:15 - Pillar 7: Light Without Fire-- The QL Quiet Lie. 57:40 - Pillar 8: The Thames Video Game-- Securing the Arteries. 1:05:20 - Pillar 9: The Shadow Map-- Counter-Navigation by Numbers. 1:13:50 - Pillar 10: The Quiet Math of Survival (2,500 Lives Saved). 1:21:15 - Pillar 11: When the Opponent Learns-- German Modifications. 1:29:40 - Pillar 12: The People of Fire-- Handlers and Controllers. 1:37:10 - Pillar 13: After the Flames-- Secrecy and Memory. 1:45:00 - Conclusion: The Warning and the Ask.
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