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...morning of the Battle of Kula Gulf, Navy officers, aware that the gulf was full of dangerous coral reefs, ordered a quick chart. Such a job would ordinarily take at least three days. Army planes from Guadalcanal swarmed over the gulf, hastily shot 1,500 pictures covering nearly 500 sq.mi. In eight and a half hours the pictures were taken, developed, and assembled in a mosaic showing all the reefs. In the battle that night no U.S. ship ran aground...
...equipment consists of three cameras with wide-angle lenses, one pointing straight down and one obliquely to each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force's aeronautical chart division, a baldish, twinkling Irishman, was awarded the Sherman Mills Fairchild plaque for his achievement...
...system used to overcome this difficulty was based upon the use of universes other than our own. Where these universes could be clearly seen, it was assumed that no cosmic dust clouds intervened. Thus accurate measurements could be taken. Partial obscuring of universes was also used to locate and chart the location of these dust clouds...
...Faces. But good organization, though vastly important, is still less important than good men. The fresh new titles had been given to the same old officials. The Washington Post summed it all up for those who feared that a bold change of chart might mean no real change of State Department heart...
...start of her fifth year of war, Canada added up some figures, made a form chart on the Dominion's performance in two wars...