TIL when the Coronado US Navy Base was completed in 1970, it featured four L-shaped buildings, forming a swastika. The Navy was eventually forced to budget $600,000 in 2008 to camouflage the site after aerial images of the base from Google Earth began circulating online.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/27/usa.technology



Submitted February 03, 2015 at 11:59PM by eatelectricity http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2unu1p/til_when_the_coronado_us_navy_base_was_completed/

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