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  • Iowa Gov. Chet Culver bows his head after landing in Iowa City following a tour of the flooded regions of the state Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
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  • The swollen Turkey River engulfs Elkader, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
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  • Iowa Gov. Chet Culver surveys flooding damage on the Upper Iowa River near Decorah during a helicopter tour over Iowa, June 10, 2008.
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  • Cruel irony came in the form of a street sign as Tony Malone pushes a catamaran to help neighbors Calvin and Mike Jennings salvage items from their flooded home on Water Street in Cambridge.  Water from the swollen South Skunk River began rising into homes at 3 a.m.
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  • Terry Pohlman collects raindrops on the brim of his hardhat while waiting out the storm at Manatt's Construction Company in Johnston, Wednesday morning, June 11, 2008.
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  • Isaac Glanz, 8, of Des Moines west watches a rainbow formed from water spray at the Saylorville Lake spillway.
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  • "I got really upset when I started seeing sentimental things floating," says Barbara Eshelman of how her family could not keep up with Friday's floodwaters pouring into the basement of their Williams Street home near Four Mile Creek on Des Moines' east side.  Wiping sweat from her face, she spent Saturday clearing out her basement and putting everyting into one of two piles -- one for items to salvage, one for items to throw away.
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  • Kent Wierson feeds bulls on his waterlogged farm near Cambridge. "Not much you can do about it but watch it," he says of the rising South Skunk River that has covered much of his family's  farm.  He says he will have to replant over 400 acres of his fields.
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  • Cambridge firefighter Nick Hilgenberg, left, aids Shorty Heslop depart from his flooded home in Cambridge.
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  • **LIKELY USE AS 1A CENTERPICE PHOTO** Sixty-eight years ago today, Verl Clark Davisson, 90, of Iowa City advanced on Omaha Beach as part of the first wave of the D-Day invasion during World War II in Normandy, France. <br />
Davisson left the family farm in Wellman after being drafted in 1942. He saw combat in North Africa and Sicily as a member of the 1st Infantry Division prior to D-Day, but says nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he hit the water off of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944.<br />
“We had no idea what we were going into.  You could see the bullets hitting the water just like rain. Everything was a mess.  There was just no place to go.”<br />
That morning, Davisson was charged with the task of driving a 2 ½ ton truck out of the landing craft and onto the beach. “It hit that water…I was set in water, driving. It went right on up on the beach, never missed a beat. I was pretty proud of that.”<br />
Davisson and his unit spent the next 12 hours fighting their way up the high cliffs over the beach to prepare for what would become the hard fought Battle of Normandy.<br />
To this day, Davisson retains his most prized possession from the war: his war-torn helmet emblazoned with the insignia of the 1st Infantry Division, better known as “The Big Red One.”<br />
About a month following D-Day, Davisson was on patrol in a truck when he came under fire from a rail-mounted German howitzer.  The gun’s large shells exploded all around him.  “It blew a hole that you could’ve drove the truck in and buried it,” he recalls. <br />
After being knocked down by the explosions, he found cover and waited out the onslaught. He eventually returned to base, where he removed his helmet to find a gash ripped in its side from shrapnel impact.   The helmet had saved him from what would have been certain death.  <br />
“It’s been kind of a masterpiece to me,” Davisson says of the helmet.  “It means more to me than anybody. I wouldn’t be sitting here if I hadn’
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  • Laura Eggers wades through waist-deep water while salvaging some of her belongings from her apartment on South 5th St. in Ames Wednesday, August 11, 2010. Flood levels for the Skunk River and Squaw Creek in Ames crested at record levels Wednesday, after eight inches of rain fell overnight, inundating the city and the campus of Iowa State University.
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  • m0612floods- Christopher Gannon/The Register - 6/11/08 -   Natalie Leverette pats her rain-soaked son, Cameron, 12, on the head while their family works to empty their home on SE 9th Street near the swelling Des Moines River Wednesday, June 11, 2008.  Natalie started packing and sandbagging her home yesterday, and is emptying it today.  (Christopher Gannon/The Register)
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  • Natalie Leverette pats her rain-soaked son, Cameron, 12, on the head while their family works to empty and evacuate their home on SE 9th Street near the swelling Des Moines River Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
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  • Water flies under an athlete's feet during the Boy's high school shot put April 25, 2008 at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa.  Heavy overnight rains flooded the throwing platform.
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