What hides the US from Japan in the second world (16 photos) Bashny.Net

February 1942. Monitor US Navy discovered a Japanese submarine near San Francisco. A few days later, the boat off the coast of Santa Barbara, she runs several rounds of oil in storage. Threats to the Japanese invasion evident.





Before the defense of the United States is difficult to implement the task of "passive protection measures" for all vital facilities on the Pacific coast. Executing such an order was entrusted to Colonel Omer John F. (John F. Ohmer). He did Camouflage California.





Colonel Omer was a freshman in camouflage case. To help himself, he was in Hollywood film studio, MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Universal. All of them responded and were given assistance in their set designers, painters, landscape painters, carpenters, electricians and builders.
The Colonel and his team used the techniques of Hollywood, to cover about 34 airbases planting fake plantations and setting different structural coverage. Simultaneously Omer intended to hide the key enterprises and assembly plants, that would be likely targets for the Japanese attack on the Pacific coast. This aircraft factory Douglas (Douglas) in Long Beach, and Lockheed-Vega (Lockheed-Vega) in Burbank.
The Colonel and his team used the techniques of Hollywood, to cover about 34 airbases planting fake plantations and setting different structural coverage. Simultaneously Omer intended to hide the key enterprises and assembly plants, that would be likely targets for the Japanese attack on the Pacific coast. This aircraft factory Douglas (Douglas) in Long Beach, and Lockheed-Vega (Lockheed-Vega) in Burbank.





Maintaining the illusion of a neighborhood requires careful planning. In the suburbs, it was necessary to show signs of life and activity. To do this, workers sometimes appear, and move cars, and through hidden hatches in the domes, appeared and walked to the hidden runways and implement what they were doing some work. And beneath camouflage proceeded ordinary people's lives.





Test flights of the masked area were successful because the pilots were unable to determine the base, and factories. Soon came another order on a camouflage away from Seattle Boeing. For his shelter was designed composition of schools, parks, homes and other buildings.





After the war with Japan camouflage was removed. Yet I wonder how much it would be effective if the Japanese Air Force conducted its air attacks on the coast?