Hurricane Camille caused an estimated $3.5 million damage to the base, but Keesler personnel and students mobilized to assist local agencies with recovery and relief efforts. Keesler Air Force Base was established as a United States Air Force training facility in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1941. The seventy-three photographs in the Hurricane Camille collection present the storm's devastation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast from three perspectives: Keesler Air Force Base personnel's relief efforts, photographer Al Fred Daniel's drive-by impressions, and John W. Nicholson Jr., also from Jackson, who captured images of the destruction, especially to churches, along most of the Gulf Coast, including Biloxi, Mississippi City, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, and Bay St. The largest piece of the collection consists of forty-two color photographs taken by John W. Al Fred Daniel, a professional photographer from Jackson, Mississippi, created twenty-three black-and-white images of commercial and residential property damage. The United States Air Force produced the first eight (black-and-white) photographs that document Keesler Air Force Base personnel involved in the recovery efforts post-landfall. The images were combined from three sources. The Hurricane Camille Photograph Collection consists of seventy-three images related to the aftermath of the storm on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Until hurricanes Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005), Camille was cited as the largest single act of destruction in United States history. The storm system caused an estimated 259 deaths (three in Cuba, 143 on the Gulf Coast, and 113 in the Virginia floods) and $1.421 billion in damage. As it moved through central Kentucky and into West Virginia and Virginia, it dumped up to thirty-one inches of rain, generating flash floods and landslides. Louis, Mississippi, around midnight on August 17, 1969, with winds estimated at 200 miles per hour and tides fifteen to thirty-two feet above normal. Camille, a category 5 hurricane, made landfall on the Gulf Coast just east of Bay St.
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