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scene in 1919, and who was to dominate the field that was nearest and 
dearest to his heart The most important factors which the aerial 
photographer must combat to secure good photographs are distance, speed, 
and lack of adequate illumination and it is in these three broad 
problem areas that General George W. Goddard made his greatest and most 
lasting contributions. As Amron Katz appropriately states: 
" Trying to plot George Goddard in a coordinate system 
requires mor,e dimensions than are commonly available. I could 
talk for hours just about Goddard as a personality and a charac 
ter, but more hours would be required to tell about him as a 
military man, as a laboratory chief, as a goad, a tormentor, 
a photographer, and a developer—not only of film and ideas 
and equipment, but of people.»... 
".....Goddard raised a whole generation of people who had the 
ennobling experience and opportunity of ranging across all 
aspects of aerial photography from focusing the cameras, testing 
them in the laboratory, installing them, flying them, proces 
sing the pictures, analyzing the pictures, making scientific 
tests, going overseas, visiting the consumer, etc., etc 
As a result, many of us had truly marvelous experiences..... 
(although) at the time we didn’t think these experiences we 
were having were very marvelous or ennobling. It turns out 
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in retrospect that Goddard was right and we were wrong "