End - Of - The - Trail

DMS closed it's doors in 2011 after 98 years of unprecedented achievements in... well you name it. ALL those accomplishments were a direct result of it's people. Please sit and visit for awhile and rekindle old relationships...with many of those folks.

As Commander and Director of the DMS in 1974 Colonel Kurtz said: “...at DMS our product is people, not paper as in other components...our new motto in the Topographic Sciences Division --- “THINK PEOPLE”. While he most probably was thinking Students I would like to think the below thumb-nail images of cadre and dedicated professionals were also what he had in mind.

Thumbnail images are always difficult to see details.... My purpose in showing the below +2,000 images is not to show details but to give you a sense of the magnitude of power you had at the DMS. Because of my sources used in harvesting them some of those images are difficult to see most of anything so have given you a links that takes you to a much larger image – Those with a narrow yellow strip on their right side are your hyperlinks (just click the image).

Please don't complain about the images being “out of focus” - “too dark” - “washed out”, "grainy", etc. etc... What you are looking at is all there was to work from --- and it's all mostly seventh and eighth generation imagery. For what it's worth category---For each square on this page there is an image. IF one does not open the first time you open the page it may the next time or the time after that. You and I have no control here – it is all up to your system and your browser.

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Notable Topographic Engineers – Those pictured here all played an indirect but intimate part in your career accomplishments. They date from 1756 to two still living. They can all be seen and read about in the Commanders page under the AGC Link – Be proud.

Talbert Abrams, 1895-1990	John Abert 1788-1863	James Bagley 1881-1947	William Clark 1770-1838	Irene Fischer 1907-2009	William Emory 1811-1887	John R. Vogler 1916-	George Wheeler 1842-1905	Issac Roberdeau 1763-1829	Herbert Loper 1896-1989	Charles Ruth 1889-1949	Donald Belcher 1911-2005
Gilbert W. Kirby 1925-	John Fremont 1813-1890	Robert Frost 1916-2001	Stephen Long 1784-1864	George Preuss 1803-1954	Simeon De Witt 1756-1834	Sidman Poole 1893-1955	Andrew Humphreys 1810-1883	Robert Erskine 1735-1780	Erwin Raisz 1893-1968	Jack Rinker 1923-	Benjamin Talley 1903-1998

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