United States Coast Guard CHIEF PETTY Officer Wayne Merritt from Escanaba, Michigan, assigned to the Coast Guard, Aids To Navigation Team (ANT), is deployed to Grand Forks, North Dakota, to help support the Red River flood victims. A team chief coordinating different relief operations along the Red River, he checks a map of the local area, to determine exactly where a water pump station is located. The Coast Guard will transport city employees who work for the Grand Forks Water Department to the station. The water station will be used to help pump flood water from the community back into the river
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Grand Forks
State: North Dakota (ND)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Paul R. Caron, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
28/04/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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