The 76th Field Artillery Battery filling sandbags and loading a barge for "Operation Chico". This unit was utilized for emergency flood duty at Sherman Air Force Base. Photograph by Robert J. Marsh
Troops of the 77th Infantry Rifle Company on night duty at Sherman Air Force Base work from a barge in "Operation Chico". Photograph by Robert J. Marsh.
Personnel of the 94th Infantry Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, pass sandbags hand to hand from a truck to the south dike, Sherman Air Force Base. Photograph by PFC Miner.
The Fort Leavenworth bridge over the Missouri is closed to traffic after flood waters of the Missouri River inundate Highway 92 and bottom lands, including buildings of the Federal Prison Farm seen at right of bridge. Photograph taken by George...
Flood waters of the Missouri River flow through a break in the south dike of Sherman Air Force Base and inundate the field and hangers. Photgraph by George L. McLain
Lowering clouds threaten rain as trucks bring more dirt to reinforce the North dike at Sherman Air Force Base at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Men and planes patrol the dike. Photograph by C.E. Harvey
Aerial view of the North dike at Sherman Air Force Base shows a concentration of workers at a point where pressure of the rising waters of the Missouri River threatens to weaken the dike. Photograph by Duncan Waller
Flood waters take over Sherman Air Force Base. Water pouring through a break in the south dike the night of April 23rd inundated the field. All personnel were evacuated safely. Photograph taken by PFC Miner.
These soldiers are preparing to shoot an 81mm mortar. They are L to R: Pvt. R.A. Greene, ammunition carrier; Pfc. J.E. Williams, first gunner; and Cpl. C.T. Babb, observer. All of the men are members of the Weapons Troop, 4th Brigade, 2nd Cavalry...
This thesis determines that the military should not mandate the adoption of the Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP) as the single planning model at the operational level of war. Although it is both technically possible and feasible to adopt the...
With combat formations schedule to begin drawing down in July 2011 and the role of US forces in Iraq already shifting away from the lead, the future of these two nations will grow increasingly dependent upon the indigenous security forces and the...
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