I received some more great emails and wanted to share them with everyone
before I deleted them. The first one is about WWII and the defense contractor
Lockheed. The second one is about a guy that makes things out of
wrenches. The pictures haven't been altered in anyway. Enjoy the
history lesson!
Hiding the Lockheed plant during World War II which is
really in
plain view.
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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.
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The person that provided these pictures said she got an interesting
story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a
younger child, remembers all this. She says that to this day, these are
the first pictures of it she's seen.
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Another person who lived in the area talked about when they were a boy,
watching it all 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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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
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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
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Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II.
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