From the Iowa National Guard website:
“On a stifling July day in 1918, 18,000 officers and soldiers posed as Lady Liberty on the parade [drill] grounds at Camp Dodge.” [This area was west of Baker St. and is currently the area around building S34 and to the west.] “According to a July 3, 1986, story in the Fort Dodge Messenger, many men fainted-they were dressed in woolen uniforms-as the temperature neared 105 degrees Farenheit. The photo, taken from the top of a specially constructed tower by a Chicago photography studio, Mole & Thomas, was intended to help promote the sale of war bonds but was never used.” (Grover 1987)
From a decendent of one of the soldiers in the photo:
Base to shoulder: 150 feet
Right arm: 340 feet
Face: 60 feet
Nose: 21 feet
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet
Flame on torch: 600 feet
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Total number of men: 18,000
Happy 233rd Birthday America!
Author: Tom Flynn III
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