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Subject:        RE: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
Date:   Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:19:26 -0500
From:   Keen, Richard <[log in to unmask]>
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CC:     Behr, Rose-Anna <[log in to unmask]>, Whitfield, Thomas
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Stephen,

   You may already have an answer to your question and I am not certain my answer will be of help.  But I just spoke with Richard Smith from the National Archives.  They have a large collection of aerial photographs, flown by the Army, in the time period you mentioned in your note.  To assist you they need to have a map/s of the area under study.
   Mr. Smith's phone number is 301.837.3006 and his e-mail address is: [log in to unmask]  He emphasized that they could not help you unless they had a map showing the sites.  You may want to contact him to determine how best to provide this information.
   I hope this helps.  Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that they have these photos.

Rick

Richard C. Keen
Librarian
DCNR/TopoGeo Library
3240 Schoolhouse Road
Middletown,  PA  17057-3534
717.702.2020
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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
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