By Jack | Posted on: August 1, 2009 | 330 Comments

Astounding photographs taken by photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas. These photos display tens of thousands of American soldiers posing as symbols of American history.

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  • robot_makes_music

    A who says the government can't do anything good? Where's the private contractors doin this, huh?

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  • http://kittyspinner.com/ Kento Ikeda

    As an American, I kind of find this terrifying? I hope we're not capable of this anymore…

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  • http://twitter.com/ScrumpyFU Noland

    Excellent collection! I have that pic from the Hawaiian Division since a great-great uncle of mine served in that unit and is in that pic (somewhere). Thanks for this!

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  • Samtagious

    Spectacular.

  • Samtagious

    Spectacular.

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  • name goes here

    great stuff but , really ? did they had THAT much free time on there hands ?!

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  • jillmarie22

    This is incredible! I had never heard of this…and I love the idea!

  • rogerevans

    Wonderful to see and get more understanding our troops no matter the year for we all support our county that are in the services of our country.

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  • jamiliya13

    woa. I guess this is what troops were doing during their downtime before they started smoking pot and listening to rock and roll?

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    Wow!

  • G Eagle Esq

    I flatter myself that I agree with that distinguished Lady the Nurse Myra on so many things …. aprt of course on whether Christianity would be advanced by bulldozing Lichfield Cathedral in order to provide a Bronwfiled Ste for Social Housing

    BUT I have to confess that this Eagle struggles to better her most apposite observation :

    WoW

  • GJGanucheau

    In the age of computer generated images, Its truly astounding to think of the vision, patience and dicipline needed to accomplish these compositions. Little wonder they chose soldiers for thier preferred medium. I also a torn thinking how far we have fallen from such a noble hearted age. Faults and all, we knew we were the greatest nation on earth and were proud of that fact.

  • gareththomasnz

    man they took perspective into account – they must have been standing in a weird shape

  • Meh

    Right there… forming the puma is the Students and Faculty of The University of Pittsburgh…. Do try to keep up.

  • robot_makes_music

    Not exactly private contractors.

  • http://savagemike.tumblr.com savagemike

    Your tax dollars hard at work.

  • De Man

    Wow; this must have been a complete pain in the ass for them. Bet it took them hours to get it jjjuust right.

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  • Mel

    Waste of money? Too much free time? Calm down. Heaven forbid our troops take a little time out from defending our country to do something fun and to show a little pride. Shame on them for building morale!

    Awesome pics, thank you for sharing!

  • Mel

    Waste of money? Too much free time? Calm down. Heaven forbid our troops take a little time out from defending our country to do something fun and to show a little pride. Shame on them for building morale!

    Awesome pics, thank you for sharing!

  • iknoweverything

    this isn't fuckin real. you gotta be kidding me.

  • Lumberjack_Abe

    You have got that right.

  • pfc

    google 2id living patch, rolled out at 430 got there at 630 to cold rain, stood around as people talked and pointed and shouted for 4 hours, then they took a picture. 5000 soldiers

  • fbarryeagan

    Woodrow Wilson gives me a Woodrow. Fart.

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  • Royal Air Force Veteran

    “we knew we were the Greatest nation on earth” – Conceited much? Most people love their country, but to portray an self appreciating opinion as a fact is just a tad arrogant.

    There are many other countries in this world that have achieved more in their millenia of progression than a collection of states have in their few hundred year. (I don't necessarily mean my own either).

    Please don't misinterpret my response, I do not dislike the US, in fact I believe it to be a fantastic nation and enjoy visiting often. However I have universal disdain for those who proclaim themselves better than others especially when said proclamations are based on obvious falsehoods.

    Back on point though, the photographs are very impressive and the artist has a lot of talent. All involved have done a wonderful job.

  • http://www.staffingpower.com/ nurse

    It is very nice. Fantastic!. How to create it. Amazing.

  • faqu

    too bad americans are shit whores

  • http://www.batechocolate.com/ conrick

    these pictures are retouched…maybe the first 50 or 60 rows are a real
    but still amusing

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  • joenard

    I'll have to consider the inconsequential source of this useless comment.

  • joenard

    I'll have to consider the inconsequential source of this useless comment.

  • http://www.orangeocean.co.uk/ Andrew Robinson

    Where on earth did you dig these pics up from? Are they on display somewhere?

  • thisguy7

    what a waste of money

  • Chains

    Retouched? The Liberty Bell photo is displayed inside the Liberty Bell museum. I've been there. Christ, people need to find a new way of feeling clever.

  • http://youtube.com/mariafoo Maria Abundis from America

    Your way of addressing a full country and segregating them as inferior to the rest of the world is something very shit-whorish of you to say.

  • thoney

    Grampa's good old days.:)

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