The Valley of the Giant: Mississippi River story
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The Valley of the Giant: Mississippi River story
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (06/16/1979 - )
ARC Identifier 12767 / Local Identifier 77.62. Opening with an explanation of the national importance of the Mississippi River as a major trade waterway, the film explores the Army Corps of Engineers' methods of maintaining it as a safe navigational channel. It also chronicles how the Corps has built countless levees, dams, floodways, etc., in order to prevent a reoccurrence of the massive destruction of the delta that resulted from the 1927 flood.
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- Internet Archive, in FedFlix: US government films
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- Public domain (Creative Commons dedication), as the Internet Archive states it.
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- National Archives and Records Administration
- Language
- English
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