Rivers

View of the river flowing through the city of Osako, Japan. From album created by the Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Bridge in Mutanchiang, China, across the Mutan River, demolished by retreating Japanese. People unidentified. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Oil slick (lower left foreground) caused by crude oil trapped between emergency gate valves, shut when flood damage occurred in "Big Inch" river crossing, seeped to the surface along bank of Arkansas River to mark the point of break in 24 inch War Emergency Pipeline. Raging water gouged back hundreds of feet of river bank and caused the "Big Inch" to break far north of the river channel. In the distance is Rock Island Railroad Bridge where the completed temporary pipeline detour spanned the flood, permitting resumption of "Big Inch" oil runs for the East.

Oil slick caused by crude oil trapped between emergency gate valves, shut when flood damage occurred in "Big Inch" river crossing, seeped to the surface along bank of Arkansas River to mark the point of break in 24 inch War Emergency Pipeline. Raging water gouged back hundred of feet of river bank and caused the "Big Inch" to break far north of the river channel.

View of flooded Arkansas River which washed out 300 feet of bank, undercut the buried "Big Inch" pipeline and caused a break that cost East Coast 7 day stoppage of pumping operations. The stoppage amounted to about one million, four hundred thousand barrels of oil.

Arkansas flood waters that washed away a levee half-a-mile inland from point where torrential current cut new river channel and severed deeply buried "Big Inch" pipeline near Little Rock, Arkansas.

Flooded Arkansas River that stalled "Big Inch" pipeline deliveries of oil for the East. The Arkansas River flooded thousands of acres before severing the War Emergency Pipeline near Little Rock, Arkansas. The break was detoured by quick construction of an 8-mile emergency loop and eastward oil movements were restored.

Construction of a temporary runway over the Cache River in Section Number 5 using logs from trees removed from the right of way for the oil pipeline. From the scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views - First Section of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline.

Overview of crowd near the Mississippi River in St. Louis during the 35th Division reunion.

Aerial photograph taken over Washington, D.C., showing the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial at the extreme right in addition to a view of the Potomac River.