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During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/08/19/1034/
Someone in our building mentioned that it was primarily Hollywood set designers that constructed the camoflauge.