Reminiscences of Arthur C. Lundahl, 1981.

Biographical Note

Photointerpreter

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education in Chicago; BS and graduate work at University of Chicago 1933-42; World War II service Navy: officer at Navy Radio Operators School, student Navy photointerpretation, assignments in Aleutians and Washington DC; civil service photointerpreter, Navy and Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to retirement; U-2 incident; Open Skies for Peace program; Cuban missile crisis; improvements in photointerpretation: comparison of American and European equipment; National Photointerpretation Center: establishment, incentive program, equal opportunity application; future use of photointerpretation: natural disaster predictions, food source location, mapping, computers; American Society of Photogrammetry; stereo photography; philosophy of photography

Subjects

• American Society of Photogrammetry.
• Interviews.
• Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Lundahl, Arthur C., 1915-1992--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Photogrammetry.
• Photographers--Interviews.
• Photographic interpretation (Military science)
• Photography, Military.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
• United States. Navy--Photographers.