-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:03:56 -0600 From: Jay Parrish PhD, PG and Doug Behm <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> From: Parrish, Jay [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:02 PM To: Doug Behm; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army US Dept of Ag flew starting around 1938 onward-covering all farm land (The PA Survey's photos are online at www.pennpilot.psu.edu) Jay Parrish PhD, PG State Geologist/Director Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, DCNR 3240 Schoolhouse Rd. Middletown, PA 17057 717-702-2053 717-702-2017 main office 717-903-5223 cell -----Original Message----- From: DMT '09 - Digital Mapping Techniques [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug Behm Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:57 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. ====================================================== Douglas D. Behm [log in to unmask] University Geologist Office of Land Management and Real Estate Services University of Alabama -----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] >