Claim: Photograph shows U.S. soldiers forming a giant Statue of
Liberty figure. Example:[Collected via e-mail, October 2007] YOU
HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS.....THE HUMAN STATUE OF LIBERTY OPEN IN
WIDE SCREEN ITS WONDERFUL.. Unbelievable, can't imagine how long
it took to line all of these men up just right to get such a
picture! During the WW I years, Arthur S. Mole and John D.
Thomas made some incredible human pictures by using thousands of
sailors or soldiers in uniform to create images. (Click to
enlarge) Origins: As the web site of the Iowa National Guard
explains, the above-displayed photograph of a "human Statue of
Liberty," formed by 18,000 posed soldiers, was taken in July
1918 at Camp Dodge, Iowa, as part of a planned promotional
campaign to sell war bonds during World War I: 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