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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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