Historical Vignettes -- Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Historical Vignettes

The Office of History publishes short articles on activities and episodes from the Corps' past. On the left-side navigation bar, you will find archived vignettes organized by category. Please check back for new material.

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Featured Vignettes

50 Years Since the Clean Water Act - NEW

Other Featured Vignettes

20 Years Since

20th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks and Response

40 Years Since

Mount St Helens Erupts

50 Years Since Apollo

50 Years Since Vietnam

thatched roof L-shaped building in a clearing with palm trees

HQ Building of the 5th Air Force

HQ Building built by Army engineers for the 5th Air Force at Milne Bay, New Guinea. January 10, 1944.

low dam holds back green water and sediment

Debris retaining structure

Mount St. Helens Eruption Recovery: The debris retaining structure on the North Fork Toutle River, ca. 1982.

sign for the Engineer District Canaveral

Canaveral District sign

Sign near the offices of USACE's Canaveral District, ca. 1967.

Red Dust at Black Horse in Vietnam

Typical working conditions at Black Horse [Camp Blackhorse, near Xuan Loc, Vietnam]. 27 March 1968.

Sacramento District Awards, 1943

Sacramento District, Staff. Group of staff at Service Awards ceremony, 1943.

Three men push a large concrete cylinder into place.

Los Angeles River sewer relocation 1939

Channel improvement on Los Angeles River, California. Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Transporting 60-inch pipe to position in relocated sewer tunnel under Los Angeles River. Photograph taken June 30, 1939.

Man in USACE jacket observes large equipment shoveling snow.

Snow removal in Detroit District

Michigan snowstorm and snow removal, Detroit District, Feb. 1977.