ABSTRACT 
U.S. efforts to map Liberia date back to 1951, at which time 
the two Governments negotiated an agreement for the Liberia 
Survey... In 1963, a project agreement was signed by U.S. 
personnel of the Agency for International Development (AID) and 
the Liberian Bureau of Natural Resources and Survey. As a result, 
the 72 nd Engineer Detachment, under the direction of Army Map ® e 
Service, set up field Headquarters at Camp Ramrod, about 11 miles 
east of the capital city of Monrovía. (See Figure 1). Its mission 
was to: 
(1) Establish vertical control for mapping. 
(2) Establish astronomic positions at HIRAN stations; and to 
(3) Observe astronomic azimuths at HIRAN stations and along 
the traverse. 
(4) Provide on-the-job training for members of the Liberian 
Cartographic Service. 4 
Planning for the most recent mapping effort began in 1966. © 9 
Early in 1967, the USAF Military Airlift Command (MAC) assigned 
the job to the 1370th Photo Mapping Wing, whose worldwide field 
operations, both airborne and ground, are performed by Aerial Survey 
Teams (AST's). 
Project AF 67-4 was thereby generated, and Aerial Survey Team 
No. 2, under the command of Major William H. Kinghorn, was organized. 
Its mission: to obtain Visual and HIRAN Controlled Photography of the 
entire country of Liberia during one photographic Season.