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Title: Hangars and aircraft parts at the Douglas Aircraft Company Santa Monica plant under the camouflage designed by landscape architect Edward Huntsman-Trout to conceal the manufacture of military aircraft during World War II
Date Created and/or Issued: [1941-1945]
Contributing Institution: Santa Monica Public Library
Collection: Santa Monica Image Archives
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Description: Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives.
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Douglas was engaged in the manufacture of C47 transports and A20 attack bombers.
The camouflage was a residential neighborhood created of burlap supported by a tension compression structure to cover entire plant.
A dummy plant was erected adjacent to the neighborhood.
Museum of Flying Collection.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w.
Identifier: http://digital.smpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/smarchive/id/3713
Subject: Douglas Aircraft Company
Bombers--California--Santa Monica
Hangars--California--Santa Monica
World War, 1939-1945--Camouflage
Relation: 247578384
Provenance: Donated by the Museum of Flying.