Robert Bowley found the lifesize stuffed sacking decoy as he cleared his late brother's home.
It was one of 400 dropped by RAF crews in Operation Titanic on the night of June 5-6, 1944 on three inland sites in northern France, to entice German forces from the real landings on five Normandy beaches.
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