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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two men work to bring a third man in through a hatch at the bottom of a rescue diving chamber.

Chamber Device

An illustration of the chamber device used to rescue 33 people from the sunken submarine USS Squalus on May 24, 1939.

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