{"id":627,"date":"2017-09-24T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2017-10-10T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T17:06:27","slug":"douglas-aircraft-factory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/douglas-aircraft-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Aircraft Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During WWII, arms factories were considered vulnerable to Japanese attacks from the sea.<\/p>\n<p>To thwart attacks from the air, many factories were camouflaged. One of these was a Douglas Aircraft factory in the Los Angeles area. Designed by motion picture set artists, and costing many millions of dollars, netting was strung over the factory, and bucolic countryside settings were constructed on the surface of the netting. Underneath the netting, the factory continued its work.<\/p>\n<p>Tom was driven past a Douglas Aircraft factory on one of his weekends and describes it as very realistic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-630 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Aircraft factory above the netting\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas Aircraft factory above the netting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-631\" style=\"width: 719px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-631\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Aircraft factory under the netting\" width=\"719\" height=\"444\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-2.jpg 719w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/douglas-aircraft-covered-in-netting-ww2-2-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas Aircraft factory under the netting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe title=\"Santa Monica &amp; the Douglas Aircraft Company\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCiCvglDGps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During WWII, arms factories were considered vulnerable to Japanese attacks from the sea. To thwart attacks from the air, many factories were camouflaged. One of these was a Douglas Aircraft factory in the Los Angeles area. Designed by motion picture set artists, and costing many millions of dollars, netting was strung over the factory, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/douglas-aircraft-factory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Douglas Aircraft Factory<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions\/676"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}