Those who grew up in Santa Monica remember that Douglas Aircraft was also covered with camouflage.................... Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II | Lockheed
During WW II Lockheed During W.W.II (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. 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 who sent this 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 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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