Hiding The Lockheed Plant During World War II

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Hiding The Lockheed PlantDuring World War II

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• Lockheed During WW.II (unbelievable 1940s
  pictures) This is pretty neat--special effects
  during the 1940's  I have never seen these
  pictures or knew that we had gone this far to
  protect us. During World War II the Army Corps of
  Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank
  Aircraft Plant to protect it from Japanese air
  attack. They covered it with camouflage netting
  to make it look like a rural subdivision from the
  air.  (Besides everything else, check out the
  cars.)

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• I suppose one of the reasons this was so
  successful was that we did not tell the damn
  media everything we were doing.

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