Q-Sites, setting fire to Coventry to save London
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Q-Sites (as well as QF and other, similar sites) were a mechanism of military deception in wartime England, and managed to save thousands of lives by setting fires in farm fields. A masterpiece of deception, it relied on a full knowledge of enemy tactics and equipment.
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