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Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II
Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 5:52pm

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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Mosaicwench CH.com Sponsor Offline www.mosaicwench.com Posts: 3507 Near Milwaukee WI, USA Gender:	Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II Reply #1 - Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 7:56pm Very,very cool.
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Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II
Reply #2 - Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 8:25pm

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.)

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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II Reply #3 - Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 8:32pm I remember when I first learned of this kind of thing. I was dumbfounded. These are terrific pictures! Charlie
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II Reply #4 - Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 11:21pm What's really wild is they did that without any of the technology we have now!! Joe
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Mike NZ CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Oxygen rocks! D3 too! Posts: 3785 Auckland, New Zealand Gender:	Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II Reply #5 - Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 1:58am 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!! And equally, technology like GPS means that camouflage like that won't make much difference at all.
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Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II
Reply #6 - Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 8:49am

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.

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Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II
Reply #7 - Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 9:33am

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).

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DennisM1045 CH.com Alumnus Offline One wave at a time! Posts: 3437 Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA Gender:	Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II Reply #9 - Oct 25^th, 2010 at 1:33pm 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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Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II
Reply #11 - Oct 25^th, 2010 at 8:08pm

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.

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Chris H CH.com Sponsor Offline CH with CH Posts: 130 Gender:	Re: Hiding the Lockheed burbank Plant during WW II Reply #12 - Oct 26^th, 2010 at 12:11pm Jeez, just think what else you could do under that kind of cover...
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