Things You Never Knew About WWII "It’s February, 1942. US Navy Monitors have just tracked a Japanese submarine skulking just outside of San Francisco. A few nights later, a Japanese submarine surfaces off the coast of Santa Barbara and fires a few shells at an oil storage facility. With the memories of Pearl Harbor from last December still fresh, the threat of a Japanese invasion is palpable.
"In Seattle, the gigantic 26-acre Boeing Aircraft complex was ordered to be camouflaged in order to safeguard it from possible attacking Japanese airplanes. They blanketed the plant under netting; disguising the area as a suburb complete with municipal buildings, parks, schools and homes."
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