Doug Behm wrote:
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> From: Lund, Dee [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:46 PM
> To: Doug Behm; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
>
> Sorry to jump in late but here are a few nuggets of information that may
> or may not be helpful....
>
> For Illinois:
> The National Archives (NARA) has collections up to 1960 and the
> USDA-APFO has the collections after 1960.
>
> Negatives were destroyed for the following states:
> The states included Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
> Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and
> Washington. Personal communication, Gerald Luchansky, Photo Curator,
> NARA, June 21, 2006
>
> I am not familiar with the extent or current location of any of South
> Dakotas Aerial Photographs.
>
> After the United States entered World War II in December, 1941, the AAA
> suspended its aerial photography program until after 1945, and the USDA
> contributed its aerial photographic expertise and facilities towards the
> war effort. So I am not sure where the "1943" comes from in the
> discussion below. It may refer to a different set of images from another
> agency.
>
> I don't know what grid 475 and 572 means but if the location is near
> Minnesota here is a link to what they have:
> http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/landview.html
>
> If I think of anything else I'll post again.
>
> Dee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DMT '09 - Digital Mapping Techniques [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Doug Behm
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
>
> FYI, if you know of a resource for this time period.
>
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> Douglas D. Behm                      [log in to unmask]
> University Geologist
> Office of Land Management and Real Estate Services
> University of Alabama
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maps-L Moderator
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:12 PM
> To: Johnson, Stephen
> Subject: Re: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
>
> With your permission I can post this inquiry to a discussion list for
> map librarians (which I moderate).
>
> Angie
>
> Johnson, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone, I am working with the head of our criminal justice
>>
> program at the University of South Dakota who does a lot of work for the
> cold case unit in our state attorney general's office.  That unit is
> working to bring closure to a disappearance [likely murder] of a person
> from a farm in South Dakota circa. 1941 or 1942.  This was a case that
> was never solved.
>
>> What we've been told is that the United States Army used to fly
>>
> missions in which aerial photographs were taken of the entire United
> States in a grid map format [as I'm reconstructing my notes from a phone
> conversation with him this morning].  My faculty member is of the
> understanding that these aerial photography flights ended in 1943.  We
> need to get ahold of those aerial photographs from that year for grid
> numbers 475 and 452 here in South Dakota.  Do any of you in govdoc-l
> land know where or who to begin to go to for getting ahold of these
> photographs?   Is this something that the National Archives would have?
> Somebody also told me that it might be available through the National
> Air and Space Museum.
>
>> More than anything, thank you very much for your time and
>>
> consideration of this.
>
>> Stephen Johnson
>> Business and Distance Education Librarian
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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