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During WW II Lockheed During W.W.II
(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.
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.
