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LAWRENCE RICKARD WAGER (1904-1965): A DISTINGUISHED GEOLOGIST WHO HELPED TO PIONEER AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR ALLIED FORCES IN WORLD WAR II

机译：Lawrence Rickard赌场（1904-1965）：一位尊敬的地质学家，帮助在第二次世界大战中为盟军开展空中摄影解释

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'Bill' Wager, after undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, became a lecturer at the University of Reading in southern England in 1929. He was granted leave in the 1930s to participate in lengthy expeditions that explored the geology of Greenland, an island largely within the Arctic Circle. With friends made on those expeditions, he became in June 1940 an early recruit to the Photographic Development Unit of the Royal Air Force that pioneered the development of aerial photographic interpretation for British armed forces. He was quickly appointed to lead a 'shift' of interpreters. The unit moved in 1941 from Wembley in London to Danesfield House in Buckinghamshire, known as Royal Air Force Medmenham, to become the Central Interpretation Unit for Allied forces-a 'secret' military intelligence unit that contributed significantly to Allied victory in World War II. There Wager led one of three 'shifts' that carried out the 'Second Phase' studies in a three-phase programme of interpretation that became a standard operating procedure. Promoted in 1941 to the rank of squadron leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, he was given command of all 'Second Phase' work. Sent with a detachment of photographic interpreters to the Soviet Union in 1942, he was officially 'mentioned in a Despatch' on return to England. By the end of 1943 the Central Interpretation Unit had developed into a large organization with an experienced staff, so Wager was allowed to leave Medmenham in order to become Professor of Geology in the University of Durham. He resigned his commission in July 1944. Appointed Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford in 1950, he died prematurely from a heart attack in 1965, best remembered for his work on the igneous rocks of the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland and an attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1933.
机译：在剑桥大学的本科和研究生后的“比尔”下注于1929年成为英格兰南部阅读大学的讲师。他在20世纪30年代批准了休假，以参加漫长的探险，探索格陵兰的地质，岛屿主要是北极圈。随着这些探险的朋友，他于1940年6月开始招募了皇家空军的摄影发展单位，开创了英国武装部队的空中照相诠释的发展。他很快被指定领导口译员的“转变”。该单位于1941年从温布利在伦敦到丹舍菲尔德郡的Danesfield房子，被称为皇家空军Medmenham，成为盟军的中央解释单位 - 一个“秘密”军事情报单位，在第二次世界大战中盟军贡献。有赌注LED，其中三个“班次”中的一个，其中在成为标准操作程序的三相解释程序中进行了“第二阶段”研究。 1941年促进了皇家空军志愿者储备的中队领导人的等级，他被授予了所有'第二阶段的工作。 1942年，随着摄影口译员的脱离，他正式“发货”返回英格兰。截至1943年底，中央解释单位已发展成为一个有经验丰富的员工的大型组织，所以允许下注将Medmenham离开Medmenham，以成为达勒姆大学地质学教授。他于1944年7月辞职了他的委员会。1950年，他在牛津大学的地质学教授在1965年过早地死于心脏病发作，最好记住他对格陵兰岛的Skaergaard入侵的火鸡岩石的工作，并试图攀登1933年珠穆朗玛峰。

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