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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Gen. Eisenhower talks with paratroopers on an airfield in England.

Eisenhower Talk

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day -- "Full victory: nothing else" -- to paratroopers in England just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe.

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