US Coast Guard rescues victims of a flood in Greenwood, Mississippi using motor-powered dory boats

US Coast Guard works to rescue victims of a flood in Greenwood, Mississippi. Men lower Coast Guard dory boats from a railroad car. Spectators watch as the men put dory boats in the water. Prisoners in striped clothes stack sandbags to control overflowing water of Yazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers. Submerged houses and trees. Residents flee in boats. Coast Guard officers aboard a boat in water. U.S. Army and Red Cross Fokker F.VII a aircraft in flight over the flood area. Aerial views of the flooded region.