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Sandbagging efforts along the flooded Missouri River

Soldiers resting between shifts

Food collection for flood victims

Soldiers await their orders

Baking pies for flood relief workers

Flooding along the Missouri River

Flooding along the Missouri River

Protect Right Of Way - Section men for the Illinois Central railroad sandbag the right of way along their line north of Council Bluffs. In most of the area, Missouri River flood water is either standing or running on both sides of the tracks.

Food pantry for flood victims

Donald Wessels looks at the pile of sandbags at the basement window of the Blake Mitchell home at 619 North 30th Street. If the water doesn't reach the area, the neighborhood kids will have a heck of a big sandpile to play in.

Four of a large group of students who came from Ames to work with other volunteers are shown here hefting sandbags into an army truck at the Golden Horse diner on South Omaha road. Left to right are John Peck of Garner; Leon Kruse of Tipton; Roger…

Omaha, NE, April 18 . . . Night falls on a chain of volunteers as they pass sandbags in an effort to contain the water in several sand boils which uprooted the pavement on Pershing Boulevard in the north section of the city. Floodlights light the…

Smashed paving . . . bears imprint of giant earth-moving machines that scarred city streets during flood fight.

Corp. Gerald Botcher, Houston, MN and PFC Teofilo D. Marinez, Durango, CO, Company A 472 Engineers, Aviation Batallion, rest in Bayliss Park.

Army personnel wash their trucks with fire hoses

Soldiers play cards on makeshift sandbag furniture
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