arthur shillstone rae created some of it. the one who illustrated an article in the smithsonian in 1985, i think, about the first mention of this in print. and there are wonderful artists it would be lard to assemble 1,000 -- 1,083, the number of troops, that talented today. hard to assemble. boggles the imagination. yes? >> how were they recruited? were they already in the military? pulled into the service? >> how were they recruited? they were recruited in fairly ingenious ways. one of the things that the army did to recruit the camouflage troops early in the war and they started recruiting as early as 1942. they put the word out in the new york art schools and, in fact, a number of people from, say, the pratt institute of design, parson institute of design, people on the staffs who were reserve officers, gone to the engineering school down at fort belvoir and way daback. bill blass said, unthinkable not to be in the army. most hated the army but were extremely patriotic signed up in droves and expected to be able to do som