OT: cool story Hidden In Plain View

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During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of

special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or

knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II

the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft

Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it

with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the

air.

Before...

After..

The person I received this from said she got back an interesting story

about someone's mother

Who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this.

And to this day,

It is the first pictures of it she's seen.

Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching

it all be set up like a movie studio production. They had fake houses,

trees, etc. And moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential

area from the skies overhead.

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Note.... I lived in North Long Beach during World War II, I was 13 years

old. (1940) The Long Beach airport was near Lakewood , CA . There was a

large Boeing Plant there. If you would drive down Carson St. Going south

you could drive under the camouflage netting. Ed Pollard

I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif. I have been under this

net and have seen it from the air. During preflight training I rode a bus

under the net and was very surprised as I didn't know it was there. It was

strong enough to walk on and they hired people to ride bicycles and move

around as if they lived there to make it look authentic.Warren Holmgreen

Jr

Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing!

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During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of

special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or

knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II

the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft

Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it

with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the

air.

Before...

After..

The person I received this from said she got back an interesting story

about someone's mother

Who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this.

And to this day,

It is the first pictures of it she's seen.

Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching

it all be set up like a movie studio production. They had fake houses,

trees, etc. And moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential

area from the skies overhead.

>

Note.... I lived in North Long Beach during World War II, I was 13 years

old. (1940) The Long Beach airport was near Lakewood , CA . There was a

large Boeing Plant there. If you would drive down Carson St. Going south

you could drive under the camouflage netting. Ed Pollard

I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif. I have been under this

net and have seen it from the air. During preflight training I rode a bus

under the net and was very surprised as I didn't know it was there. It was

strong enough to walk on and they hired people to ride bicycles and move

around as if they lived there to make it look authentic.Warren Holmgreen

Jr

Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing!

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