KANSAS RIVER & MISSOURI RIVER FLOODS Part 1

Description

Summary: LS, MLS, MSs, levee, Chouteau Island. Soldiers load sandbags into small boat. LSs, telephone poles and wires toppling over in the flood. 19 July: MS, piling sandbags on levee. MLS, pan from sandbags to river. LS, MLS, MSs, soldiers piling and stepping on bags. MS, tilt down along sandbags in position. MLSs, MS, piling bags. MSs, soldiers passing sandbags down line. LSs, from moving dukw, showing flooded roads, houses and barns in water, covered farmlands, etc. MS, man in underclothes standing in water. LS, boat to farmhouse. MS, pan to barns. LS, house. LS, men get out of boat. MLS, wagon in water. MS, dukw and Army men on land. MLS, chickens on island. Pan to water. MLS, MS, men passing boxes of household goods to dukw; people boarding dukw. MLs, people in dukw as it moves through water. LSs, views from moving dukw. LSs, dukw comes out of water, crosses RR track, moves onto ground. (Note: Location is about 40 miles N of St Louis).

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities