Reminiscences of Arthur C. Lundahl : oral history, 1981.

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Reminiscences of Arthur C. Lundahl : oral history, 1981.

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.

Transcript: 499 leaves.Tape: 10 reels.

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