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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (left) and Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., confer in a Sicilian town in 1943. Roosevelt, son of the 26th U.S. president and an Army Reserve hero of both world wars, would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on D-Day in 1944.

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (left) and Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., confer in a Sicilian town in 1943. Roosevelt, son of the 26th U.S. president and an Army Reserve hero of both world wars, would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on D-Day in 1944.

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (left) and Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., confer in a Sicilian town in 1943. Roosevelt, son of the 26th U.S. president and an Army Reserve hero of both world wars, would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on D-Day in 1944.

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