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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

The USS Arizona burns after being hit by a Japanese bomb while U.S. sailors aboard the neighboring USS Tennessee spray fire hoses to force burning oil away from their ship during the air attack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941.

The USS Arizona burns after being hit by a Japanese bomb while U.S. sailors aboard the neighboring USS Tennessee spray fire hoses to force burning oil away from their ship during the air attack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941.

The USS Arizona burns after being hit by a Japanese bomb while U.S. sailors aboard the neighboring USS Tennessee spray fire hoses to force burning oil away from their ship during the air attack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941.

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