John Austin Meyer (St. Marys September 18, 1919 - Pittsburgh January 28, 1997) was an aerial photographer in the US Army Air Forces during World War II and a professor of Nuclear and Radiation Chemistry.
[1] After initially being put off by the army because he couldn't bring his photographic equipment, he befriending Corporal Busch who got promoted to Sergeant, and helped Meyer into the photography department.
[2] Meyer had a four-month training program in aerial photography at the Air Force Photo School in Denver, then assigned to the US base at Gander, Newfoundland in August 1942 as chief photographic officer.
He then was awarded a research fellowship at the State University of New York's College of Forestry eventually becoming a faculty member.
[1] Studying for his PhD, he met and married Marion Waterman during her masters who eventually retired as Assistant Dean Emeritus of the School of Management at Syracuse University.