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Dam/Levee Break ^ Extreme Temperatures ^ Flooding ^ Winter Storm - Fargo, N. D. , March 29, 2009 --Volunteers from the Red River Valley and beyond work to fill sandbags in the Fargodome in preparation of upcoming storm. Over 300,000 sandbags were stockpiled on this day. Andrea Booher/FEMA

Dam/Levee Break ^ Extreme Temperatures ^ Flooding ^ Winter Storm - Far...

The original database describes this as: Title: Volunteers at the Fargodome in North Dakota Production Date: 03/29/2009 Caption: Fargo, N. D. , March 29, 2009 --Volunteers from the Red River Valley and beyon... More

[Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding] Iowa City, IA, June 14, 2008 -- Local residents Dan Baumhover, Matthew Ruppenkamp, and Eric Smith fill sandbags for deployment around their flooding city. The Iowa River will be delivering even more water from the north by tomorrow. Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA

[Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding] Iowa City, IA, June 14, 2008 ...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Winfield, MO, June 19, 2008 -- Volunteers Patrick Dougherty, with shovel, and Toni Drew prepare sandbags at a local high school to help for sandbagging efforts at the local levees on June 19, 2008. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Winfield, MO, June 19, 2008 -- Volunteers Patrick Dougherty, with shov...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Flooding - Fargo, N. D. , March 24, 2009 -- Members of the North Dakota National Guard and civilian flood-fighting volunteers fill sandbags at the Fargodome in Fargo, N. D. , March 24, 2009. The sandbags are being used to block the rising waters of the Red River. (U. S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. David H. Lipp/Released)

Flooding - Fargo, N. D. , March 24, 2009 -- Members of the North Dakot...

The original database describes this as: Title: Sand bagging at the Fargodome in Fargo, ND Production Date: 03/24/2009 Caption: Fargo, N. D. , March 24, 2009 -- Members of the North Dakota National Guard and... More

[Three soldiers posing by a mounted cannon with a wall of sandbags behind them]

[Three soldiers posing by a mounted cannon with a wall of sandbags beh...

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

British soldiers with sandbags wrapped around their feet to keep them from slipping on the frozen duckboards, near Roclincourt, France. 1-9-1918

British soldiers with sandbags wrapped around their feet to keep them ...

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph - British army, military forces, during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lean-tos]

[Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lea...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Built up communication trench running to front line, Flanders

Built up communication trench running to front line, Flanders

Communications trench above ground, Western Front. In some places, as this photograph shows, it was not possible to dig trenches, either because the ground was too waterlogged, or because the underlying rock wa... More

Artillery officers at the entrance to their dugout, Flanders

Artillery officers at the entrance to their dugout, Flanders

Officers' dugout, Western Front. Three officers at the entrance to a dugout. The grenade collar badges confirm the caption's identification of these men as Artillery officers. The dugout is formed of earth appa... More

Heavy load of sandbags for the front line, Flanders

Heavy load of sandbags for the front line, Flanders

The soldier in this photograph is carrying a large sack, apparently full of sandbags. They must have been extremely difficult to carry as the sand would have been wet and the ground was slippery with mud. Photo... More

Soldier's comrades watching him as he sleeps, Thievpal, France, during World War I

Soldier's comrades watching him as he sleeps, Thievpal, France, during...

Soldiers are standing in a very deep, narrow trench, the walls of which are entirely lined with sandbags. At the far end of the trench a line of soldiers are squashed up looking over each others' shoulders at t... More

Staff car in a strafed village, Flanders

Staff car in a strafed village, Flanders

A military car parked beside a sentry-box built of sandbags in a partly destroyed village. Several signs indicate a gas-alarm point is situated at the sentry station. As the war progressed, motor vehicles were ... More

Scene near the front in the Ypres Salient

Scene near the front in the Ypres Salient

Near the Ypres battlefield, Belgium, during World War I. The terrain is very hilly and rough with poor visibility in all directions. The valley between two of the hills is divided by a wall made of sandbags. Th... More

Frying his bacon in a reserve trench, Flanders

Frying his bacon in a reserve trench, Flanders

Frying breakfast in the reserve trenches, Western Front, during World War I. A soldier frying food in a large frying pan over a brazier made of a tin drum with holes cut in it. A few other men are watching. Whe... More

Advanced Pigeon loft well protected by sandbags. 1917

Advanced Pigeon loft well protected by sandbags. 1917

British Photographs of World War I Public domain photograph of World War One military equipment, vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wet and muddy trench, Flanders during World War I

Wet and muddy trench, Flanders during World War I

Trench during World War I. An extremely wet and muddy trench. In the background there is a soldier sheltering from the rain, outside what could be the entrance to a dugout. Sandbags are piled up around the wall... More

Digging sand during World War I

Digging sand during World War I

Labour Corps digging, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows five men of one of the Labour Corps groups, probably the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) digging sand under the supe... More

[Lucian Swift Kirtland leaning against sandbags in trench]

[Lucian Swift Kirtland leaning against sandbags in trench]

Gift/Purchase; Ivan and Hinderaker/Walter Grossman; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:255, DLC/PP-1981:339). Forms part of: Kirtland collection (Library of Congress). Accession box no. DLC/PP-1981:255 c1, f9

Bridge with Sandbags, Holyoke - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph

Bridge with Sandbags, Holyoke - U.S. National Archives Public Domain p...

Original caption: Holyoke, Mass. Holyoke, Mass. Public domain photograph of the US industrial development, construction, work of U.S. government, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flooding - Lake Delhi, Iowa, July 29, 2010 -- Sandbags are all that remain from a torrential rainfall during a 48-hour period in the week ending July 24, 2010. FEMA, state, and county officials along with the Small Business Administration have started the recovery with the preliminary damage assessment process. Jace Anderson/FEMA

Flooding - Lake Delhi, Iowa, July 29, 2010 -- Sandbags are all that re...

The original database describes this as: Title: Maquoketa becomes a stream at lake Delhi following Dam collapse Production Date: 07/29/2010 Caption: Lake Delhi, Iowa, July 29, 2010 -- Sandbags are all that r... More

Photograph of a Flood Protection Barricade at the National Archives Building 7th Street Entrance

Photograph of a Flood Protection Barricade at the National Archives Bu...

Historic Photograph File of National Archives Events and Personnel Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sandbags, Flooding, Potomac River, Washington, D.C.]

[Sandbags, Flooding, Potomac River, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo, Illinois

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo,...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo, Illinois

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo,...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Applying pressure by means of sandbags to glued leather in saddle repairing shop. Alpine, Texas

Applying pressure by means of sandbags to glued leather in saddle repa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Sandbags protect vital plant areas of the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, against air raids. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Sandbags protect vital plant...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Story coast defense. Banked with sandbags, a Fort Story, Virginia signal lamp "speaks" incoming ships to shore

Fort Story coast defense. Banked with sandbags, a Fort Story, Virginia...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillerymen over one of the obstacles on the obstacle course at the anti-aircraft training center. Here we see the different phases of the jump; one man has just landed on the sandbags; two are in the air; and another man is gathering himself for the spring across

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillery...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tripoli, Libya. A Roman head among sandbags

Tripoli, Libya. A Roman head among sandbags

Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tripoli, Libya. A classic Roman head, blasted from the torso, resting amid the sandbags

Tripoli, Libya. A classic Roman head, blasted from the torso, resting ...

Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

10/64. Seldovia - Threatened Boardwalk - 25,000 sandbags were places on the boardwalk and elsewhere on the waterfront to weigh down the installation so it would not float in high tides that flood the walk

10/64. Seldovia - Threatened Boardwalk - 25,000 sandbags were places o...

Seldovia Public domain photograph - United States History, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boardwalk Vigil - Seldovia, Alaska's Civil Defense director, John Tennison, reflects on the rigorous vigil imposed on his town by a quirk of nature. Seldovia was lowered four feet during the March 27 earthquake and now is flooded by high tides. Sandbags provided by Army Engineers help weigh down the boardwalk

Boardwalk Vigil - Seldovia, Alaska's Civil Defense director, John Tenn...

Seldovia Public domain photograph of Alaska, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

3/65. Seldovia - Shows sandbags places to keep the boardwalk in place during high water

3/65. Seldovia - Shows sandbags places to keep the boardwalk in place ...

Seldovia Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

10/64. Seldovia - Sandbag Express - Seldovia is threatened by high tides ever since the ground elevation dropped four feet during an earthquake on March 27. Army engineers provided sandbags to weigh down the boardwalk and keep it from floating away

10/64. Seldovia - Sandbag Express - Seldovia is threatened by high tid...

Seldovia Public domain photograph - United States History, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of 10,000-gallon fuel bladders at the Cua Viet bulk fuel area. The bladders are full when they are at a height of four feet. Sandbags will be installed around the bladders

A view of 10,000-gallon fuel bladders at the Cua Viet bulk fuel area. ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Viet Nam (VNM) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Kenneth L. Fuller Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A view of 10,000-gallon fuel bladders at the Cua Viet bulk fuel area. The bladders are full when they are at a height of four feet. Sandbags will be installed around the bladders

A view of 10,000-gallon fuel bladders at the Cua Viet bulk fuel area. ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Viet Nam (VNM) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Kenneth L. Fuller Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A convoy of trucks and tracked vehicles assembles at the Dong Ha fuel supply facility. Sandbags protect the 10,000-gallon fuel bladders

A convoy of trucks and tracked vehicles assembles at the Dong Ha fuel ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Dong Ha Country: Viet Nam (VNM) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Kenneth L. Fuller Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More

Wall of Sandbags next to Damaged Houses and Debris in Gunrock, Massachusetts after the Blizzard of 1978

Wall of Sandbags next to Damaged Houses and Debris in Gunrock, Massach...

Original caption: Photograph by Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Feb 15 1978 New England Division File No. 124 Emergencies Blizzard of 1978 Gunrock, Mass. Jim McDevitt Photographer. Construction Projec... More

Wall of Sandbags next to Damaged Houses and Debris near Gun Rock Beach in Hull, Massachusetts after the Blizzard of 1978.

Wall of Sandbags next to Damaged Houses and Debris near Gun Rock Beach...

Original caption: Photograph by Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Feb 15 1978 New England Division File No. 129 Emergencies Blizzard of 1978. Jim McDevitt Photographer. Construction Project Photographs

View of Damaged Houses, Debris, and Wall of Sandbags seen from Beach after the Blizzard of 1978 in New England

View of Damaged Houses, Debris, and Wall of Sandbags seen from Beach a...

Original caption: Photograph by Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Feb 15 1978 New England Division File No. 133 Emergencies Blizzard of 1978. Jim McDevitt Photographer. Construction Project Photographs

Members of the 24th Infantry Division fill sandbags at a defensive position during Operation Desert Shield

Members of the 24th Infantry Division fill sandbags at a defensive pos...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military... More

A1C Robert Spence, from the Clinical Material Section at Grissom Air Force Base, checks one of the buildings at the Pemberton dike, which was reinforced with sandbags after a recent flood

A1C Robert Spence, from the Clinical Material Section at Grissom Air F...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Wayne State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT David Craft Release Status: Released to Publi... More

U.S. Marines fill sandbags that will be used around the perimeter of their camp. U.S. M Marines have been assigned to a multinational peacekeeping force after a confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

U.S. Marines fill sandbags that will be used around the perimeter of t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Dietrich Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

Two U.S. Marines fill sandbags that will be used around the perimeter of their campsite. U.S. Marines have been assigned to a multinational peacekeeping force after a confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

Two U.S. Marines fill sandbags that will be used around the perimeter ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Dietrich Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

A U.S. Marine stacks sandbags in front of a tent as he prepares his campsite upon his arrival here. U.S. Marines have been assigned to a multinational peacekeeping force after a confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

A U.S. Marine stacks sandbags in front of a tent as he prepares his ca...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Dietrich Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

Marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit place sandbags around their defensive position during a multinational peacekeeping operation

Marines of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit place sandbags around their...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Robert Feary Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a terrorist attack. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A US Marine guards his unit's encampment from the cupola of an M60 main battle tank parked behind a wall of sandbags. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

A US Marine guards his unit's encampment from the cupola of an M60 mai...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a terrorist attack. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A US Marine stands guard near a barricade of sandbags at Beirut International Airport. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

A US Marine stands guard near a barricade of sandbags at Beirut Intern...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a terrorist attack. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a terrorist attack. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

US Marines armed with M16 rifles take cover behind sandbags during a t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A member of the 400-man Marine Barracks Ground Defense Force stacks sandbags at a fence-line entrance to the unit's quarters

A member of the 400-man Marine Barracks Ground Defense Force stacks sa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Gary Hopkins Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Se... More

Marines of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit stand guard duty at a checkpoint during a multinational peacekeeping operation. An M72 rocket launcher is visible on the sandbags

Marines of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit stand guard duty at a check...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: SYSGT R. D. Lucas Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

Members of the 1606th Civil Engineering Squadron fortify a command post with sandbags during the mission capability inspection PURPLE DUCK '86-12

Members of the 1606th Civil Engineering Squadron fortify a command pos...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PURPLE DUCK '86-12 Base: Norton Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera O... More

Members of the 1606th Civil Engineering Squadron fill sandbags to fortify bunkers around command posts during the mission capability inspection PURPLE DUCK '86-12

Members of the 1606th Civil Engineering Squadron fill sandbags to fort...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PURPLE DUCK '86-12 Base: Norton Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera O... More

PFC Kim S. Young, company cook, empties sandbags during the joint Honduran/U.S. exercise Cabanas '88

PFC Kim S. Young, company cook, empties sandbags during the joint Hond...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CABANAS '88 Base: Palmerola Air Base Country: Honduras (HND) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT David Mcleod Release Status: Releas... More

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, and German fire department personnel shore up a weakened dam complex with sandbags at the ESWE Waterworks plant along the swollen Rhine River. The river, which reached its highest level

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, an...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: West Germany (FRG) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT David S. Nolan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, and German Fire Department personnel shore up a weakened dam complex with sandbags at the ESWE Waterworks plant along the swollen Rhine River. The river, which reached its highest level

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, an...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: West Germany (FRG) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT David S. Nolan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, and German Fire Department personnel shore up a weakened dam complex with sandbags at the ESWE Waterworks plant along the swollen Rhine River. The river, which reached its highest level

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, an...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: West Germany (FRG) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT David S. Nolan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, and German Fire Department personnel shore up a weakened dam complex with sandbags at the ESWE Waterworks plant along the swollen Rhine River. The river, which reached its highest level i

Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, an...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. David Nolan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital ... More

AIRMAN 1ST Class Tony Allen, his M-16A1 rifle laying on the sandbags before him, peers through a pair of binoculars as he keeps watch on the perimeter during exercise Creek Warrior '88. Exact Date Shot Unknown

AIRMAN 1ST Class Tony Allen, his M-16A1 rifle laying on the sandbags b...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CREEK WARRIOR '88 Base: Sembach Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Kelvin Davis Releas... More

Two members of a mobile fire team composed of personnel from the 66th and 410th Security Police Squadrons take aim from behind a low wall of sandbags during Exercise CREEK WARRIOR 88. Both are armed with M-16A1 rifles equipped with blank firing attachmen

Two members of a mobile fire team composed of personnel from the 66th ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Sembach Air Base Country: West Germany (FRG) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Kelvin Davis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military S... More

Two soldiers fill sandbags at the beginning of exercise Team Spirit '89

Two soldiers fill sandbags at the beginning of exercise Team Spirit '8...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '89 Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

A Marine stands watch in a bunker at a petroleum-oil-lubricants (POL) storage facility near Howard Air Force Base. Set on the sandbags are an M-249 squad automatic weapon (SAW) and an M-79 grenade launcher

A Marine stands watch in a bunker at a petroleum-oil-lubricants (POL) ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Panama (PAN) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Laird Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Seabees from Navy Mobile Construction Battalion Three (NMCB-3) place sandbags along the bay area sea wall to keep wave action from destroying the breakwater until permanent repairs can be made. Navy Seabees from the San Francisco area are making necessary repairs and assisting where needed in reestablishing water service after the latest earthquake

Seabees from Navy Mobile Construction Battalion Three (NMCB-3) place s...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Francisco State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Dan Durrant Release Status: Released to ... More

Extreme Temperatures ^ Flooding ^ Winter Storm - Jamestown, N. D. , April 3, 2009 -- Sunya Maxwell, a Jamestown College student originally from Coldbay, Alaska fills sandbags at the civic center in preparation of Spring floods from the James River. Andrea Booher/FEMA

Extreme Temperatures ^ Flooding ^ Winter Storm - Jamestown, N. D. , Ap...

The original database describes this as: Title: Volunteers fills sand bags in North Dakota Production Date: 04/03/2009 Caption: Jamestown, N. D. , April 3, 2009 -- Sunya Maxwell, a Jamestown College student ... More

A team member carries sandbags to the shelter that he and his companions are constructing during the civil engineering/services competition Readiness Challenge '90

A team member carries sandbags to the shelter that he and his companio...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: READINESS CHALLENGE '90 Base: Hurlburt Field State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operat... More

MASTER Sergeant Pascal Tucker and Sergeant Darren White, both members of the 916th Aerial Refueling Group's security police, use sandbags to construct a bunker during exercise PATRIOT WARRIOR. The men are training with multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) gear

MASTER Sergeant Pascal Tucker and Sergeant Darren White, both members ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PATRIOT WARRIOR Base: Camp Swift State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: AIRMAN 1ST... More

Marines pile up sandbags that are being filled on the beach at the edge of the US Embassy compound. Marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU), deployed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2), were sent to augment security at the embassy as part of Operation SHARP EDGE

Marines pile up sandbags that are being filled on the beach at the edg...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SHARP EDGE Base: Monrovia Country: Liberia (LBR) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 William G. Davis Iii Release Status: Released to... More

Airmen fill sandbags that will be placed around aircraft revetments during Operation Desert Shield. An F-15C Eagle aircraft of the 1ST Tactical Fighter Squadron is in the background

Airmen fill sandbags that will be placed around aircraft revetments du...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military... More

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (NMCB-5) fill sandbags as they build a bunker near their camp's perimeter. NMCB-5 is in northern Saudi Arabia to provide engineering support for coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (NMCB-5) fill sandb...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (NMCB-5) fill sandbags as they build a bunker near their camp's perimeter. NMCB-5 is in northern Saudi Arabia to provide engineering support for coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (NMCB-5) fill sandb...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

A Marine in a seated position fires an M2 .50 caliber machine gun on a tripod, behind sandbags in grassy field. Another Marine looks on

A Marine in a seated position fires an M2 .50 caliber machine gun on a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort A. P. Hill State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Lance CPL. Crosser Release Status: Released ... More

During the Midwest Floods of '93, Army National Guard personnel use sandbags to build a levee to hold back the flood waters from the Mississippi River near Davenport, Iowa. Exact Date Shot Unknown

During the Midwest Floods of '93, Army National Guard personnel use sa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

During the Midwest Floods of '93, Army National Guard personnel use sandbags to build a levee to hold back the flood waters from the Mississippi River near Davenport, Iowa. Exact Date Shot Unknown

During the Midwest Floods of '93, Army National Guard personnel use sa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Rock Island Arsenal Foundry workers, Gary Brash and Frank Whittington, demonstrating how sandbags were filled by machine during the recent Mississippi River flood

Rock Island Arsenal Foundry workers, Gary Brash and Frank Whittington,...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Rock Island State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Tony Lopez Release Status: Released to Public Co... More

Dennis Trice and SPECIALIST Juanita Marshall, filling sandbags along Blunt Road, as the Mississippi River approaches a record crest

Dennis Trice and SPECIALIST Juanita Marshall, filling sandbags along B...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Rock Island State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Tony Lopez Release Status: Released to Public Co... More

Operation Continue Hope. United States military participants in United Nations Operation Somalia (UNOSOM) II/Operation Continue Hope have set up checkpoints at key locations in and around Mogadishu. PFC. Stinpert and PVT. Schoenher fill sandbags that will be used as speed bumps to slow down traffic through checkpoint #3.PHOTO by SPC. Gary Bryant

Operation Continue Hope. United States military participants in United...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CONTINUE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM) Scene Camera Operator: SPC. Gary Bryant Release Status: Released to Pub... More

DA-ST-96-00341... MOGADISHU, SOMALIA... 30 Oct 1993... Operation Continue Hope. A view of Hunter Base, home for the 561st Signal Battalion, 40th Transportation Company and 196th Quartermaster Company. Sandbags have been placed on top of a CONEX to reinforce a break in the wall

DA-ST-96-00341... MOGADISHU, SOMALIA... 30 Oct 1993... Operation Conti...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CONTINUE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM) Scene Camera Operator: SPC. Gary Bryant Release Status: Released to Pub... More

A view of the building housing the 362nd Engineer Company (Combat Support). Sandbags are used to reinforce the structure. The troops are in Somalia in support of UNOSOM II

A view of the building housing the 362nd Engineer Company (Combat Supp...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CONTINUE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM) Scene Camera Operator: SPC. Gary Bryant Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Members from the 51st Maintenance Squadron preparing sandbags.(Exact date unknown)

Members from the 51st Maintenance Squadron preparing sandbags.(Exact d...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '93 Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Grace Van Valkenburg Release ... More

Members from the 432nd, 354th and 374th Security Police Squadrons from Misawa AFB, Japan; Eielson AFB, Alaska; and Yokota AFB, Japan; fill and stack sandbags at the air base in support of the exercise.(Exact date unknown)

Members from the 432nd, 354th and 374th Security Police Squadrons from...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '93 Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Jim Steele Release Status: Re... More

While local Haitians look on, 10th Mountain Division soldiers fill sandbags at Port-au-Prince airport in support of Restore Democracy

While local Haitians look on, 10th Mountain Division soldiers fill san...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE DEMOCRACY Base: Port Au Prince Country: Haiti (HTI) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Dave Kosling (USN) Release Status: Re... More

Marine Lance CPL. Jordan holds his M16A2 rifle in the ready position while seated behind sandbags in a grassy field and looking toward civilians and houses. He is providing security for the airstrip during Operation Uphold Democracy

Marine Lance CPL. Jordan holds his M16A2 rifle in the ready position w...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Cape Haitian Country: Haiti (HTI) Scene Camera Operator: CWO R.D. Smith Release Status: Released to P... More

An M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) rests on a pile of sandbags as STAFF SGT. Stout Stewart, (hometown Tyler, TX) hammers down a pole identifying fields of fire in front of Post 5 overlooking the front of the US Embassy. Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) Liberia, a II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) unit from Camp Lejeune, NC, takes on the security mission at the US Embassy from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). The SPMAGTF is commanded by COL. Tony L. Corwin

An M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) rests on a pile of sandbags as ST...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ASSURED RESPONSE Base: Monrovia Country: Liberia (LBR) Scene Camera Operator: CPL. A. Olguin Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Security Police personnel from the 621st Security Police Squadron, McGuire AFB, NJ check and load sandbags to be used at the Entry Control Point on the flightline

Security Police personnel from the 621st Security Police Squadron, McG...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PHOENIX PEAK Base: Roswell Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operat... More

US Army SPECIALIST K.T. Stallings, a Combat Photographer and Army Reservist with the 982nd Signal Company, assists Canadian and Austrian soldiers load a 5-ton truck with sandbags during Situational Training Exercise-1, Convoy Operations, Exercise COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96. Cooperative Osprey is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise that is conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Cooperative Osprey, under the Partnership for Peace program, will provide interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with an emphasis on individual and collective skills

US Army SPECIALIST K.T. Stallings, a Combat Photographer and Army Rese...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (US... More

Sandbags by the thousands line the levee in the small town of Meridian, California. Efforts to save the town from the raging flood waters have proven beneficial as the water continues to rise

Sandbags by the thousands line the levee in the small town of Meridian...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Colusa State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Mike Moore, USAF Release Status: Released to P... More

Inmates from the Parlin Fork Prison Facility in Fort Bragg, CA, fill sandbags in the small northern California (CA) town of Meridian, near Beale Air Force Base. The inmates were brought in by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in an attempt to save the town from the rising flood waters of the Sacramento River

Inmates from the Parlin Fork Prison Facility in Fort Bragg, CA, fill s...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Meridian State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Mike Moore, USAF Release Status: Released t... More

Wearing protective hood gear, members of the 18th Wing Maintenance Squadron take cover behind sandbags during a mock attack on Kadena Air Base flight line

Wearing protective hood gear, members of the 18th Wing Maintenance Squ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kadena Air Base State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service ... More

Two US Army soldiers of the 1/26 Task Force, (1ST Battalion, 26th Infantry), 2nd Brigade, 1ST Infantry Division (Mechanized), Scheinfurt, Germany, off-load sandbags from an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) at Camp Dobol for the improvement of force protection while deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT GUARD, 9 March 1997

Two US Army soldiers of the 1/26 Task Force, (1ST Battalion, 26th Infa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Camp Dobal Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Dwight Chaney, USA Release S... More

Marines from Charlie Company, 1ST Batttalion, 8th Marines, fill sandbags to reinforce defensive positions inside the compound at the US Embassy in Tirana, Albania, during Operation SILVER WAKE. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU (SOC)) was called upon to perform a NEO (Non-combatant Evacuation Operation) of US citizens that desired to leave Albania, due to the current civil strife

Marines from Charlie Company, 1ST Batttalion, 8th Marines, fill sandba...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SILVER WAKE Base: Tirana Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Mark D. Oliva, Usmc Release Status: Released to P... More

[Severe Storms/Flooding] Fargo, ND, 04/15/1997 -- Residents build up levees with sandbags as residents and volunteers prepare for the rising waters of the Red River of the North. FEMA/David Saville

[Severe Storms/Flooding] Fargo, ND, 04/15/1997 -- Residents build up l...

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[Severe Storms/Flooding] Fargo, ND, 04/15/1997 -- Newly filled sandbags are moved around by truck to a levee that's being raised. The entire community is working with volunteers to protect neighborhoods from the rising waters of the Red River of the North. FEMA/David Saville

[Severe Storms/Flooding] Fargo, ND, 04/15/1997 -- Newly filled sandbag...

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[Severe Storms/Flooding] Grand Forks, ND, 04/15/1997 -- Residents and volunteers build a levee with sandbags to try and protect a neighborhood from the rising water of the Red River of the North. In less than 12 hours Grand Forks will be underwater. FEMA/David Saville

[Severe Storms/Flooding] Grand Forks, ND, 04/15/1997 -- Residents and ...

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[Severe Storms/Flooding] East Grand Forks, MN, 04/18/97 -- These dikes and sandbags failed to stem the flow of water along the Red River of the North and it's tributaries. The U.S. Coast Guard provided major assistance to the response effort. FEMA/David Saville

[Severe Storms/Flooding] East Grand Forks, MN, 04/18/97 -- These dikes...

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Members of the Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, work feverishly to fill sandbags in hopes of minimizing the damage being caused by the flooding in Grand Forks. During peak action, the sandbagging machine makes 15,000 bags an hour

Members of the Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, work feverish...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Grand Forks Air Force Base State: North Dakota (ND) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Cohen A. Young, USAF Rele... More

SENIOR AIRMAN Jesse Moreno and AIRMAN First Class Daniel Woldridge work intensely at filling bags at the foot of the giant sandbagging machine at Grand Forks AFB, for the recent flood damage in the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, 22 April 1997. The machine is capable of producing 15,000 sandbags an hour

SENIOR AIRMAN Jesse Moreno and AIRMAN First Class Daniel Woldridge wor...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Grand Forks Air Force Base State: North Dakota (ND) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Cohen A. Young, USAF Rele... More

[Severe Storms/Flooding] Grand Forks, ND, May, 1997 -- Aerial view of Grand Forks and the flooded Red River of the North and a levee that was toped with sandbags and breeched, flooding a neighborhood near the river. FEMA/Michael Rieger

[Severe Storms/Flooding] Grand Forks, ND, May, 1997 -- Aerial view of ...

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