They designed an elaborate camouflage plan that included a rooftop covering for Plant 2, as well as fake streets and foliage detail that would be painted across Boeing Field. Some of these images may be subject to copyright, and though we take great care to give credit where credit is due, we're only human. The disguises consisted of painting what appeared to be streets and greenery on real runways, and erecting entire faux subdivisions on factory rooftops. As he told me, “with nearly one hundred years of great airplanes, one would think that the most frequently asked questions directed to the Boeing history office would be about the B-17, the 314 Clipper, the 707, or 747, but hands down the most popular subject is the ‘neighborhood on top of Plant 2.’ To this day, the size, scope, and imagination of that project still captivate and amaze the public and employees.”. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and Knudsen realized that they had been right. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place, in Chicago. Ohmer’s mission? ‘Wonderland’: The Fake Cities on America’s West Coast. As described by the Seattle District Engineers, the “problem was to obtain a texture to which camouflage paint would adhere and yet which would offer no interference to air traffic. It was actually harder than it sounds. It was a fake, part of the camoflage that covered the B17 Bomber factory in Seattle Washington in 1941. He even carried out some demonstrations of suggested camouflage techniques at places such as Fort Eustis, Virginia, and such air bases as Langley Field, Virginia, and Maxwell Field, Alabama. Joyce Howe and behind her Susan Heidreich walking over the camouflaged Boeing plant Number 2. He recommended an extensive camouflage plan for Wheeler Field on Oahu, about 12 miles north of Pearl Harbor. By that time, the Japanese were on the defensive and had been routed from the Aleutian Islands. – Taphilo, Looking East from around 1500 feet at the production plant. The North Koreans claim that 200 families call the “city” home, and that it includes a childcare center, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, and a hospital. Others were guided inland to protect against feared strafing runs. The wardrobe department alone takes up the entire basement. They are not artificial in the theme-park way that EPCOT pretends to be the Experimental Community Prototype of Tomorrow, but neither are they “real” cities, like New York or London. It does, however, pose an interesting question about what a city really is, what they mean for people and what they enable us to do.