, the Hollywood set designer, artist and architect who led the effort to camouflage the Boeing airplane factory during World War II, died from lung cancer last Wednesday. After leaving MGM, he went on to manage a project for the Army Corps of Engineers. To confuse enemy bombers, Boeing Aircraft camouflaged nearly 26 acres of the Seattle plant where the B-17 and the B-29 were built. Boeing's Plant 2 was covered with a three-dimensional wire, plywood and canvas structure that was made to look like a town, including trees, houses and schools, instead of a wartime airplane factory.
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