Camouflaging An Airplane Factory

From mental_floss Blog:

I found these pictures on Think or Thwim and was blown away. Back in the 40s, during the war, the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank was not only Los Angeles' main airport, but a massive facility that produced warplanes from the P-38 to the B-17 bomber. Located in a city on the west coast, however, it was considered vulnerable to Japanese bombers. Rather than moving the facility, Lockheed took what some might consider an even more drastic step: they hid it in plain sight.

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