"Living Pictures"

from CBS News Sunday Morning

They are old time photographs made up of various symbols of American patriotism.  But these aren't just any photographs because each symbol is made up by actual patriots: members of the armed forces.

It took 30,000 men at Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan to create this human shield in 1918, photographed by Arthur Mole and John Thomas.

Frank Maresca, owner of New York's Ricco/Maresca Gallery, told CBS News correspondent Serena Altschul this picture holds the record for the largest number of people posing in a picture: "From the tip of the shield to the bottom of the stars you might have 2,000 people. But if you are talking about the last row of stars, you would probably have 20,000 people at least, just in the last row." That's because to maintain proper perspective, many more men had to be placed in the distance than up close.  (Photo: Library of Congress)

To the left, 100 officers and 9,000 enlisted men at Paris Island forming the Marine Corps' symbol.  (Photo: Hammer Gallery)

Photographers Mole and Thomas, as mentioned above, lived outside Chicago, and started off shooting religious images with members of their church.  Later, soldiers on military bases volunteered for the cause.  Here, 25,000 officers and men at New Jersey's Fort Dix form the Liberty Bell (with crack).  (Photo: Hammer Gallery)