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This cool. I grew up about a mile from one of these plants and it is wild to see the old photos. A story from my grandfather (probably not true) is that the wee
by blululu 2y ago
This cool. I grew up about a mile from one of these plants and it is wild to see the old photos. A story from my grandfather (probably not true) is that the week after Pearl Harbor Jack Warner had someone paint on the roof of the Warner Bros Studio something like “Hirohito, Northrop is over there”. When Jack Northrop heard this he was furious and gave Mr Warner one of the rare verbal lashings of his life. As a token of remorse Warner offered to lend the studio’s staff to help camouflage the aircraft plant.
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- dylan604 2y agoI wonder if the directions to Northrop were painted in English or in Japanese. I lived in Burbank for a few years and one of the early days of living there I did a history of the city kind of rabbit hole. The large amount of camouflaging was one of the things that I learned about that really stood out as something that unique to being on the West coast during that time.