| LC control no. | no2022130919 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lundahl, Arthur C., 1915-1992 |
| Variant(s) | Lundahl, Arthur Charles, 1915-1992 |
| Other standard no. | Q4798169 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) Aleutian Islands (Alaska) |
| Birth date | 1915-04-01 |
| Death date | 1992-06-22 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Bethesda (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Aerial reconnaissance Photographic interpretation (Military science) |
| Affiliation | National Photographic Interpretation Center (U.S.) United States. Navy University of Chicago American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| Profession or occupation | Intelligence officers Geologists |
| Found in | Lundahl, Arthur C. Reminiscences of Arthur C. Lundahl, 1981 (Arthur C. Lundahl, photointerepreter; BS and graduate work at University of Chicago, 1933-1942; trained as Navy photointerpreter during World War II, assigned to Aleutian Islands and Washington D.C.; began career as civil service photointerpreter for the Navy and CIA, 1946; involved in the U-2 aircraft program, Cuban missile crisis; affliated with the National Photographic Interpretation Center, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Wikipedia, October 24, 2022 (Arthur C. Lundahl, Arthur Charles Lundahl, KBE; born April 1, 1915 in Chicago, died June 22, 1992 in Bethesda, Maryland; forerunner of imagery intelligence (IMINT) and aerial reconnaissance; undergraduate and graduate studies in geography at University of Chicago; developed photointerpreting skills during World War II studying aerial photographs of targets in Japan and the Aleutian and Kuril islands; became Chief Engineer of the Photogrammetry Division of the Naval Photographic Interpretation Center after the war; moved to CIA to direct the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), 1953-1973; President of American Society of Photogrammetry (ASP), 1954; in charge of the CIA's U-2 program during the Cuban Missile Crisis; inducted into the Order of the British Empire, 1974) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Lundahl> OCLC, October 24, 2022 (access points: Lundahl, Arthur C., Lundahl, Arthur, Lundahl, Arthur Charles ) |
| Associated language | eng |
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