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Hidden WWII Military Base in California
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Posted on 03/15/2011 12:49:24 PM PDT by Keltik
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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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: history; wwii
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:49:27 PM PDT
by
Keltik
To: Keltik
Wow, that’s awesome that they could do that ...
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:51:20 PM PDT
by
Scythian
To: Keltik
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:52:13 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(I am declaring 2011 the year of ME.)
To: CougarGA7; Constitution Day
To: Keltik
I think I did hear something about this once but the pictures are cool.
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:52:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Keltik
Well over 90% of the “tanks” Bill Clinton’s forces destroyed in Serbia were in fact very expensive balloons. Many of them also featured small heaters to produce engine thermal signatures.
Some experts think the number is much closer to 100% than 90%.
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:52:52 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Keltik
Amazing. I have never seen those photos before.
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:53:28 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: Keltik
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:55:08 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
To: Keltik
This was also done at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica (now Santa Monica Airport.)
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:57:32 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
To: Keltik
You’ll notice that you can’t see how they hid the runway. Runways are very hard to hide.
To: Keltik
have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. What, do you live under a rock?
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posted on
03/15/2011 12:58:35 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Keltik
Oh wait...wrong side...
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:00:37 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: Darteaus94025
Wow! Did they paint the runway?
To: Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day
That is pretty cool isn't it. There were a lot of efforts taken during WWII to make large facilities look like something they are not. I saw a lot of this when I was working on a study of Jasper Maskelyne and his work during the Second World War. Unfortunately, a lot of the details attributed to him personally were not factual, there were several incredible efforts made.
One of my favorites is the Q-Site. Particularly the QF-Sites set up in Britain and North Africa. These site were made to look like a British airfield from the air that had already been hit by bombers. German bomber following first waves would spot these sites and drop their ordinance on this fake airfield (needless to say this illusion was a nighttime effect).
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:03:55 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: GeronL
This somehow reminds me of the X-33 Venture Star “space plane” program that our country spent so much money on before canceling. They had already built a launch facility before a single craft was built!
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:04:05 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Keltik
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:04:21 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: Keltik
That must have been expensive. I wonder if any axis pilot ever glanced over this. And I wonder if google earth would reveal what really was there.
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:04:21 PM PDT
by
st.eqed
To: waterhill; ixtl
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:05:28 PM PDT
by
Envisioning
( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
To: Keltik
June 1942. Lockheed Vega aircraft plant at Burbank, California.
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posted on
03/15/2011 1:08:12 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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