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USCG Released photos, Hurricane Katrina

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A man in a dark blue Coast Guard uniform wears a headset and looks out an aircraft window, holding a handheld radio, with an aerial view of a damaged urban landscape visible below.

Over the Superdome

Two Coast Guard officers in navy uniforms and ball caps review documents on a clipboard while standing in shallow water near a damaged shrimp boat and crane barge in a bayou.

Vessel Recovery Efforts

Two Coast Guard personnel in dark coveralls, one wearing a white hard hat with "USCG" patch on his back, stand beside large storage tanks and a calm waterway at the Bass Oil Facility in Venice, La.

Assessing Oil Damage in Venice

A large rusted shrimp boat lies overturned on a grassy bank near water, with two Coast Guard officers standing beside it and additional docked boats visible in the background.

Inspecting Shrimp Boats still Ashore

A U.S. Coast Guard work barge (68016) with crane and three tall black poles sits beside tender 75306, near the stern of cutter 559 flying an American flag, in open water.

Cutter Clamp Returns to Galveston after Hurricane Duty

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter marked "6040" hovers over floodwaters, lowering a sandbag on a long line toward a levee, with trees and waiting workers visible below.

Sandbag drops to contain levees

Several people's hands clean an oil-covered alligator with soapy rags, its jaw taped shut, on a wooden surface outdoors.

Cleaning and Releasing Alligator near Bass Enterprise Oil Spill

A man in a dark uniform and orange life vest walks across an open lot as thick black smoke from a controlled oil burn fills the sky behind him, with power lines and a dumpster nearby.

Controlled Burn after Chevron Oil Spill in Empire, LA

A Coast Guard officer in a jacket marked "USCG" oversees contractors in white protective suits cleaning oil-soaked mud along a shoreline, using absorbent pads and booms.

Cleaning up Oil Spill at Bass Enterprises

A worker in protective gear and gloves places white absorbent pads onto oil-coated mud and water amid charred, debris-strewn marshland.

Aborbing Surface Oil from Bass oil spill

A man in a U.S. Coast Guard cap, mask, and work gloves hands photographs to a woman in sunglasses and a striped shirt, with piles of storm debris and a damaged house behind them.

USCG Assisting the Ramsey Family Clean Up their Home

Two Coast Guard personnel in navy uniforms distribute supplies at a van, one handing over canned goods, with MRE cartons stacked in the foreground labeled "Meal, Ready-to-Eat."

Distributing Food, Water, and Ice in MS

Two uniformed Coast Guard members wearing masks and gloves carry out damaged furniture, including wooden chairs and a brass pitcher, from a storm-wrecked home with collapsed ceiling insulation hanging above.

USCG Help Clean a Damaged Home in MS

A U.S. Coast Guard member in uniform and sunglasses hands a bag of ice to a man seated in a red pickup truck outside a brick building.

Distributing Ice in Gulfport, MS

A Coast Guard member in a "U.S. Coast Guard" uniform photographs damaged, dented oil storage tanks in a debris-strewn field under a hazy sky.

Oil Tank Damage in LA

Two large fishing vessels, Sea Wolf and Sea Falcon, sit stranded on a highway median near an arched bridge, surrounded by storm debris and scattered boats in the waterway beyond.

Stranded Vessels in Empire, LA

Two Coast Guard responders in dark uniforms, caps, and sunglasses kneel at the edge of an oily, blackened pool, using gloved hands to collect a water sample into a small jar.

Cleaning up Sundown East oil spill

A Coast Guard officer in a life vest and ball cap sits in the foreground of a boat, while workers and a containment boom are visible on calm water near a marshy, tree-lined shoreline.

Evaluating the Sundown Oil Spill

Close-up of an oil skimmer's two large rotating drums coated in oil, mounted on a metal frame floating amid oil-slicked marsh water, with a hose and "Elastec American Marine" label visible.

Oil Skimmer Cleaning up Spill

A man wearing a navy "Strike Team" cap, sunglasses, and a Coast Guard uniform crouches to collect a water sample with a gloved hand near an oil-stained shoreline with industrial structures in the background.

Sampling Sundown East\'s oil spill

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, marked "905," is docked along the Mississippi River at dusk, with the New Orleans skyline silhouetted against a pink and purple sky.

USCG Cutter Spencer pulls to port in New Orleans

Two Coast Guard personnel in dark uniforms walk through hurricane debris near Gulfport, Mississippi, with a bare tree draped in shredded plastic and wreckage scattered across the ground.

Area Near USCG Station Gulfport

A large crowd wearing red life jackets stands on a barge marked "B 911" being towed by a tugboat, while a Coast Guard member in a red vest watches from a nearby boat.

Evacuation by Barge

A man in a gray tank top leans over a table, writing on an ax handle labeled "KATRINA," with water bottles, cups, and other people seated in the background.

Remembering the Rescued

A uniformed officer walks along a debris-strewn street covered in mud and splintered wood, with downed trees and wreckage of the destroyed Coast Guard Station Gulfport visible in the background.

Destroyed CG Station in Gulfport

Debris field of twisted metal roofing, broken boats, and fallen trees along a waterway, with a damaged open-air pavilion structure visible in the background under an overcast sky.

Gulfport\'s Coastal Damage Included USCG Station

A Coast Guard aluminum boat floats beside a flooded house as rescuers in life vests and uniforms watch a man standing on a ladder marking the home's roofline during Hurricane Katrina search efforts.

Marking a Home

Aerial view of a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in a red suit and helmet assisting an elderly man and woman in floodwaters, with a wooden fence and plank debris nearby.

Elderly couple prepare for air transport

A man carrying a backpack jumps from a rescue boat onto a grassy patch of land, while uniformed responders assist from the boat amid floodwaters surrounding houses.

Jumping to Land

Aerial view of people sitting on rooftops amid floodwaters, including a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in a red suit communicating by radio, with trash bags and debris nearby on the shingles.

Waiting on a Roof for Air Transport

Two U.S. Coast Guard crew members in orange life vests pull an orange rescue skiff through a flooded, tree-lined New Orleans street lined with damaged houses and downed branches.

Looking for the stranded

A man in a green military flight suit carries a young child, who covers his ears, past seated evacuees outside the Superdome, with other uniformed personnel nearby.

Superdome Rescue

Orange and white Coast Guard helicopters lined up on a tarmac in front of a hangar labeled "United States Coast Guard," with a few people and vehicles nearby.

USCG Helicopters Line up in New Orleans

A Coast Guard pilot in a flight suit carries luggage while boarding a C-130 aircraft through its open side door, as another crew member reaches out from inside.

Pilot Leaves from Kodiak

Aerial view of a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in an orange suit and blue helmet guiding a woman into a hoist basket above floodwaters.

Aerial Coast Guard rescue from New Orleans Apartment Building

Survivors, including a woman in a red shirt and several children, sit closely together inside a Coast Guard helicopter's cabin, with instrument panels visible in the background.

Katrina Survivors in USCG Helicopter

Coast Guard rescue crew members and paramedics, one wearing a "Newman's Ambulance Medic" shirt, carry an elderly woman from a helicopter onto a stretcher at an airfield.

USCG Rescue in Mobile

Aerial view from a Coast Guard helicopter of a rescue basket carrying two children above flooded New Orleans rooftops, with a crew member in a blue helmet guiding the hoist.

Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue in New Orleans

Aerial view of a flooded New Orleans neighborhood with submerged streets and tree canopies, an interrupted elevated highway interchange, and dark smoke rising near the horizon.

Flooded New Orleans

A Coast Guard officer in uniform writes on a notepad while speaking with another man in a blue shirt; a weathered fishing boat sits stranded in brush near the shoreline behind them.

COAST GUARD VIETNAMESE TRANSLATOR

A man wearing a navy boonie hat drives a vehicle past a pine forest, with a large displaced boat resting among the trees in Bayou Portage, Mississippi.

Displaced Vessels in MS

Two Coast Guard petty officers in white t-shirts lean over an open equipment manual at night, one holding a flashlight, as they troubleshoot wiring near an orange helicopter in the background.

HH-65 Helipcopter Repair in New Orleans

A Coast Guard officer in a cap and sunglasses writes a date on an orange "Notice to Vessel Owner" sticker affixed to the weathered white hull of the fishing vessel Binh Minh.

COAST GUARD ASSESSES HUNDREDS OF VESSELS

Uniformed service members in camouflage gather with duffel bags and gear beside a "Martz" charter bus and a covered walkway, preparing to board for deployment.

Coasties from St. Petersburg, Florida head to New Orleans