WWII airplane factory camouflaged as residential neighborhood

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“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.”

(barnstormers.com, via the BB Submitterator, thanks Jellodyne)


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WWII airplane factory camouflaged as residential neighborhood

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