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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two soldiers get in defensive positions on a field in Vietnam as a helicopter lifts into the air in the background.

Skyward Soldiers

Army Maj. Bruce Crandall’s UH-1D Iroquois helicopter climbs skyward after discharging a load of infantrymen on a search and destroy mission in Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley, Nov. 1965.

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