Below is an aerial photograph of over 9,000 Marines based at Parris Island, South Carolina forming the emblem of the U.S. Marines (a map of the Americas within an anchor surmounted by a bald eagle.)
Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S.C.
Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S.C.
Brigadier General J.H. Pendleton, Commanding
Mole & Thomas (photographers)
The Living Emblem of the United States Marines
This photograph was taken by Mole & Thomas, a Chicago firm famous for such patriotic bird's-eye group shots at military bases after World War I.
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