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(800) 453-0045 (212) 751-8135 4 MERIDIAN 7 ~ WORLD WAR II AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC HELD IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LIBRARY MAP COLLECTION Mabel K. Suzuki and Ross R. Togashi During the recent Persian Gulf Although users and their needs have War. magazine and newspaper changed. these recollnaissance readers as well as television viewers photographs remain an extremely were introduced first-hand to the role important source of information. of remote sensing. satellite imagery. Their value lies in the fact that an and aerial photographs in military aerial photograph captures on film a Allhoug.h u~rs and operations. Images of possible SCUD particular place at a specific moment their needs hive. missile launch sites in Iraq and the of time without the discrimination of changed. th~ r«on­ naisSilnce photographs hundreds of burning oil wells exud­ details found in a map of the same remain an 6lremely ing thick black smoke and its drifting area. In the eyes of a trained and important source of over the Arabian Peninsula remain experienced photo interpreter. aerial information. fresh in our minds today. But the use photographs provide a wealth of of aerial photographs by the military information. predates the Culf War by many In the late 1950s. Professor Joseph decades. E. Spencer acquired a significant During World War II aerial collection ofaerial photographs of the reconnaissance photography was Pacific Islands which had become heavily used. and its technology was declassified government surplus extensively developed. Aerial photo­ materials from the Office of aval graphs were used by the military on Research for his University of Califor­ both sides of the war for several nia. Los Angeles (UCLA) Geography reasons: to constmct mapping of an Department. These photographs. area. to locate enemy positions and taken generally between 1942 and potential targets.