Unbelievable pictures of US Troops

[T J]

Some Great pics!

http://wildammo.com/2009/08/01/incredible-pictures-formed-by-thousands-of-us-soldiers/

 

[backstept]

great googly moogly!

 

[trampledamage]

They are amazing! And done in 1918

 

[Misfit Toy]

"Wait! My eyes were closed! Take another!"

 

[Mallory]

Wow. Those are awesome!

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Wow that's amazing!

 

[propita]

What's amazing is the sheer number of people required. To prevent distortion, the farther back you go, the more people are needed. Geez! Some of those must've had thousands and thousands!

 

[Data Holmes]

What's amazing is the sheer number of people required. To prevent distortion, the farther back you go, the more people are needed. Geez! Some of those must've had thousands and thousands!

They must have been really board that day.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Holy Toledo! Those are unbelievable. That's what I call being in formation.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

That is amazing! The 2nd one down pretty much solved the mystery of how they did it. The first thing I said when I saw the first one was that the Corps of Engineers had to be involved somehow. And sure enough--they were!

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[Caliburn24]

Mass formations like those are horrible, I had my share of them while in the Army and invariably soldiers would lock their knees, pass out and similar things. We also have medical personal standing just out of sight now ready to tend to whoever goes down.

But they do make for pretty pictures.

 

[Small White Car]

What's amazing is the sheer number of people required. To prevent distortion, the farther back you go, the more people are needed. Geez! Some of those must've had thousands and thousands!

Take a close look at the Statue of Liberty.

18,000 men are in that photo.

The others are impressive, but that one is on a whole other level above.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

The pictures are impressive, yes. But you have to wonder why they were messing around with this sort of thing (the time involved in making these photos was probably enormous) in 1918. The Armistice was not signed until November of that year, and the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI was not signed until June of 1919.

Just sayin.....

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I'd think not all units were deployed to the front lines all the time.

 

[UssGlenn]

Dates are approximate. We've got one at the museum here of the 36th Division forming the T-patch, and I pretty sure it was done in the 20s.

 

[Major Chord]

^ Well, those were taken in camp...I'm sure that they were either taken after the armistice was signed, and they were little more than a police force, or they just needed something to do...and that was the "cool" for the entire division to do. Must have been a hell of a photo to send to mom and pop...

 

[trampledamage]

^ Well, those were taken in camp...I'm sure that they were either taken after the armistice was signed, and they were little more than a police force, or they just needed something to do...and that was the "cool" for the entire division to do. Must have been a hell of a photo to send to mom and pop...

Yeah, it was done for group morale I should think. (collapsing from standing still too long, notwithstanding!)

 

[Tomato]

Neat find!

 

[RoJoHen]

I wonder if they made the human flag wave.

 

[Tom Riley]

^ I thought that exact same thing when I saw that picture!