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Hiding the Lockheed Plant: From above
Submitted by CHB8 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 12:57pm.
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This is the plant from the sky covered with the tarp. 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.
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