CALIFORNIA NAVY BARRACKS SHAPED LIKE A SWASTIKA

Costly renovations (The Week)
The U.S. Navy will spend $682,000 to camouflage a [Coronado] California barracks after aerial photos revealed that it’s shaped like a swastika. Navy officials had long known about the shape of the building, completed in 1967, but figured few people would notice, because civilian planes are barred from flying directly over the base. But the building is now visible to anyone with a computer, thanks to Web sites such as Google Earth, which features aerial photographs of large segments of the globe. “You have to realize, back in the ’60s we did not have the Internet,” said Navy spokeswoman Angelic Dolan. The Navy says it will alter the building’s roof and landscaping to disguise its shape.