GM Sparks,
A friend sent this to me yesterday.
RG
Subject: FW: Hiding the Lockheed Airplane Plant During WWII
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*Hidden in Plain View*
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...
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After..
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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.
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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
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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 pre-flight
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 - wow this is amazing!
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