Coast Guard Speeds To Rescue Victims Of New Flood Peril (1932)

Coast Guard Speeds To Rescue Victims Of New Flood Peril (1932) Greenwood, Mississippi Convicts in striped prison clothes help unload whaleboats from railroad flat-car to truck. People watch as boats are put in high flood waters of Mississippi River. Convicts carry sandbags along levee & placing in water. Rowboat seen along street between flooded trees & houses. POV of three Coast Guard in motorized whale boat past farm buildings, cattle on dikes. People on house roofs, into rowboats. Supplies delivered by Coast Guard. Large flat bottomed boat w/ bed springs & goods and black family paddled past. Light US Army plane overhead. POV from airplane of flooded land & river. Aerial of flooded town. Flooding;