UM-Led Project Creates Mapping Tool Using Satellites, 1950s Photo Archive
October 18, 2023
October 18, 2023
MISSOULA, Montana, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release:
When the Cold War grew chillier around 1950, the U.S. military worried about a communist land invasion of the United States. So pilots were employed - many of them veterans of World War II - to photograph the entire country using aircraft.
This 70-year-old archive of overlapping photos was taken at different angles, providing topographic information for artillery in the e . . .
When the Cold War grew chillier around 1950, the U.S. military worried about a communist land invasion of the United States. So pilots were employed - many of them veterans of World War II - to photograph the entire country using aircraft.
This 70-year-old archive of overlapping photos was taken at different angles, providing topographic information for artillery in the e . . .