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 12/10/2007 1:36:38 PM
[EU]Lars-DK-cph
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How to Hide an Airplane Factory
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How to Hide an Airplane Factory

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.

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 8/11/2008 10:51:47 AM
[EU]Achilles
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The Germans did the same in 1944 in the ruhrarea
The city is called Bottrop.
It was a huge area of armaments industry.
 8/14/2008 2:34:02 AM
[EU]Lars-DK-cph
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Kinda empressive

But i guess in the end it still got bombed ^^ 

 

 11/7/2008 12:22:04 PM
moose
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That is definatley impressive. I`ve never seen anything on that scale before.

 

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