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I was born in Plymouth in March 1938 and was a small child during the blitz on the city. I can recall seeing large tanker like vehicles moving up our street, usually in the late afternoon.

I understand that they were used to provide a cloud of oily smoke over the city to act as a shield to protect Devonport Dockyard from airbourne attack. This layer of smoke was, in fact, released over the city rather than the dockyard to fool the german pilots into thinking that it was to protect the docks.

Maybe this is why the residential areas received so much devastation and the dockyard only had one direct hit

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