How To Hide An Airplane Factory

[jason]

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.

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[accer]

That's brilliant! Thanks for a great story about human intelligence at it's best. I'd have loved to have seen the looks on the superiors faces when the idea came out...