Hiding the Lockheed Plant during WW 11

During World War 11,

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.

Frame over Lockheed before netting

As you can see, this was quite a (secret) project. A boy that lived in the area

described it, “... as watching it all be set up like a movie production.

They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked

like a residential area from the skies overhead.”

Pictures below are after the netting and “props” were in place.