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...Marine women come from many places and occupations. Tall, dark-haired 2nd Lieut. Jane Greenough, who is now an aerial photo interpretation officer at nearby Cherry Point, is a graduate of Vassar and was working in the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum when she joined the Corps. Private Edna Thomas, now an aerial gunnery instructor, was an elementary schoolteacher in Savonburg, Kans. 1st Lieut. Virginia O'Meara, who wears her greying hair upswept, was an assistant scriptwriter in Hollywood before she started her own insurance business in Bayside...
This story was told last fortnight by a commander of U.S. flying cameramen, Colonel James G. Hall, to the American Society of Photogrammetry, convened in Washington. Photogrammetry is the name of the relatively new science of mapping by means of aerial photographs. The photogrammetrists (mostly servicemen) made many other eye-opening points...
...Reading aerial pictures requires even more skill than shooting them. The best interpreters can identify new types of aircraft on the ground, and name enemy ships, from a photograph with a scale of one to 10,000. They can often read bomb damage accurately from pictures taken six miles up. In Sicily, the Army found the photogrammetrists' interpretations 100% accurate...
...charts and several squadrons of flying cameramen (divided into strategic and tactical groups), while a third of the planes on every bombing mission carry cameras. Reconnaissance flyers, a cocky, confident group, like to quote a prewar prediction by German General Werner von Fritsch: "The military organization with the best aerial photo reconnaissance will win the next...
...slow start in 1938 (pilot output: 500 a year), the Air Forces picked up speed rapidly. By last Nov. 30 it had trained 100,799 pilots, 20,086 bombardiers, 18,805 navigators, 107,218 aerial gunners, 555,891 ground and air combat technicians. To do the job Lieut. General Barton K. Yount had built his Training Command into the Air Forces' largest single unit. By year's end, with the big end of its job already done, the Training Command had 531,416 officers and men (exclusive of about 500,000 students). It also had more aircraft than...