The Regular Force Cadet Association
A Favoured Few -- New Zealand's Boy Soldiers 1948 - 1991
Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II
During W.W.II (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.
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HELLO EVERYONE -
THIS SHOULD BLOW YOU AWAY IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER.
The person I received this from said she received 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 when he was a boy, watching it all being 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.