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Cape Hatteras Light decorated for the U.S. Coast Guard 158th Anniversary Celebration in 1948.

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
8/10/2012 3:30:04 PM
Completed in 1870 from roughly one and one-quarter million bricks, Cape Hatteras Light stood taller than any other lighthouse in the world. Shown here with the principal keeper's dwelling.

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
8/10/2012 3:06:28 PM
FRANCE — Standing on the edge of the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France visitors overlook Omaha Beach and get a feel for the incredible disadvantage the Americans Soldiers faced during the World War II invasion on June 6, 1944. On that day, German soldiers were in position on the bluff and prepared for the Allied lading.

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Overlook Omaha Beach
5/3/2012 11:23:21 AM
FRANCE — The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France serves as the final resting place for more than nine thousand U.S. Soldiers who gave their life in World War II to protect freedom.

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5/3/2012 11:19:59 AM
NORMANDY, France — A portion of Mulberry Harbor's floating roadway, used by the Allies in World War II, is displayed at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. The temporary harbor was developed and used to offload troops, vehicles and supplies on to the beaches during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

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Mulberry Harbor's floating roadway
5/3/2012 11:16:28 AM
The last crime committed by Jesse James was to rob a payroll for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Blue Water Camp in Alabama.

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Jesse James
4/16/2012 12:08:50 PM
Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the Civil War. In 1882 Clemens traveled down Mississippi River and wrote a book about the journey: "Life on the Mississippi."

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What Mark Twain said about the Corps of Engineers
4/12/2012 4:23:44 PM
This is a view of wingdams on the Mississippi River at Nininger, Minn., in 1891. In his 1883 book “Life on the Mississippi,” Samuel Clemens wrote, “The military engineers of the Commission have taken upon their shoulders the job of making the Mississippi over again… They are building wing-dams here and there to deflect the current; and dikes to confine it to narrower bounds; and other dikes to make it stay there.”

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Wingdams on the Mississippi River
4/11/2012 3:22:16 PM
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