Hiding The Lockheed PlantDuring World War II

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Lockheed During WW.II (unbelievable 1940s pictures) This is pretty neat--special effects during the 1940's:  I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect us. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.  (Besides everything else, check out the cars.)

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After

I suppose one of the reasons this was so successful was that we did not tell the damn media everything we were doing….