Word: duwamish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shower room at Seattle's police training school, reached the street, and bolted back in when they realized what kind of an impression they were making. A 71-year-old woman jumped off a bridge at a hamlet named Tukwila, and had to be fished out of the Duwamish River. Cows bellowed and loped in pastures...
...Seattle the task was difficult. Boeing's Flying Fortress plant was sandwiched between busy Boeing Field and a natural landmark, the Duwamish River. Camoufleurs hid the field so trickily that veteran pilots had to ask the way in. Atop the Boeing plant went a 26-acre village made of chicken wire, canvas, lumber, painted chicken feathers. The town had 53 houses, stores, a gas station. Some of its streets crossed the field, went up Beacon Hill. The camoufleurs skipped the river...
...landmarks like the Duwamish and San Diego's harbor outline were perfect reference points for a bombing run. They canceled out much of the safety gained by all the elaborate concealment. What was left, the engineers hoped, was enough to confuse a bombardier for a few critical seconds, spoil his aim. If it had done that, camouflage would have been cheap at any price...
Boeing's worst feature was its disjointed Plant No. 2, far enough up Seattle's Duwamish River so that fuselages from the No. 1 plant had to be put on barges to reach final assembly. First, Phil Johnson tackled Boeing's sales problem-to get the money to fix its production mess. He haunted the Allied Purchasing Commission's Washington office, wangled enough orders and cash in advance from the French to revamp Plant No. 2. As the war crescendoed, the U.S. Army poured funds in; the white-elephant plant became a huge, fully integrated...
...winked out. Seattle's 400,000 citizens had a grand time, a fine sense of civic fellowship. Beyond that, Seattle's dark hour mostly proved that i) blackout or no, Seattle's precisely patterned areas along Lake Washington, Lake Union, Green Lake, Puget Sound and the Duwamish River waterways would be an easy mark for bombers; 2) like any other industrial area designed for peacetime, Seattle could achieve a complete blackout only by shutting down its vital defense works (shipyards, Boeing Aircraft, steel mills kept going, with lights...