Thread: Navy to change the shape of a barrack due to “Google Earth

Navy barrack shape to change after revealed swastika resemblance

ASSOCIATED PRESS

10:34 a.m. September 26, 2007


Navy officials said the buildings' shape was not noted until after the groundbreaking in 1967. Since it was not visible from the ground, officials decided not to make any changes.

But aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years revealed the buildings' shape to a wide audience of computer users.

Online commentators remarked widely about the buildings' resemblance to the symbol used by the Nazis.

Dave von Kleist, host of “The Power Hour,â€

Building design comes back to haunt Navy



September 24, 2007

They plumb missed the bird's-eye view.

That's what the Navy says.

Amazing as it sounds, a Stonehenge-size facsimile of the most hateful symbol of the 20th century was overlooked until it was too late to reconfigure.

Let's back up a bit.

Google Maps

Overhead view of Naval Amphibious Base Complex 320-325 which resembles a swastika.

Almost 40 years ago, during the height of the Vietnam War, construction began on a six-building complex at the Coronado Naval Amphibious Base, south of Glorietta Bay.

Designed by prominent San Diego architect John Mock, the original blueprint consisted of two central buildings “and a single L-shaped 3-story barracks,â€

What ridiculous PC BS.