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SandyC sent me this (I did verify it just to be on the safe side).

Lockheed wanted to hide their Burbank plant during WW II, so they did. The following pictures show what they did and the results.

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I grew up in Burbank and lived there most of my life and yes, indeed they did that. There are pics just like this one all over Burbank.

Lockeed shut down their entire operations sometime in the early seventies I think, and that entire area of those pics are now an ugly Big box strip mall. The only thing they put there to even remind one driving past it, is 2 or 3 metal planes on a pole high in the air at the entrance to the mall.

WOW! talk about someone from LA. bringing back childhood memories of the Lockeed plant. I lived about 3 blocks from there.

(No...I wasn't even alive when it was hidden like that.)

I remember when I first learned of this kind of thing. I was dumbfounded. These are terrific pictures!

Charlie

What's really wild is they did that without any of the technology we have now!! :o

Joe

Guiseppi wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 11:21pm:

What's really wild is they did that without any of the technology we have now!! :o

And equally, technology like GPS means that camouflage like that won't make much difference at all.

Thanks for getting this posted here for me Carolyn, I couldn't figure out how to get the pictures to load in.

I just thought this was such an innovative and creative project given that it was done with little technology.

The men and women of the WWII era were phenomenal in their courage, their skills, their rolling up their sleeves to get the job done, no matter what the cost. Their patriotism.

God bless them all.

Sandy

I had the privilege to be close friends with a veteran of WW II. Ship was in the Navy in WW II on a carrier in the Pacific. While he was on deck, a cable snapped and subsequently caught him across his lower legs. The doctors wanted to amputate, but Ship refused. To the day he died, Ship had a limp that reminded him of the war. Ship was a ham radio operator and was known all over the US and the world by his call sign. Thanks to Ship (and others) I fell in love with ham radio, eventually earning my Extra class license (the hard way, an extremely technical test and 20 words a minute morse code).

I had no idea....very interesting.

Linda_Howell wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 8:25pm:

(No...I wasn't even alive when it was hidden like that.)

How would you know? It was hidden ;)

-Dennis-

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Sandy_C wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 8:49am:

The men and women of the WWII era were phenomenal in their courage, their skills, their rolling up their sleeves to get the job done, no matter what the cost. Their patriotism.

Yea, there was a sailor and a young women of the WWII era that got around to making me, although I doubt they rolled up there sleeves.

Jeez, just think what else you could do under that kind of cover...

All I can say is WOW!!

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