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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A boat beside a larger vessel surrounded by men pulls in the top of a rescue chamber.

Chamber Rescue

Sailors haul the rescue chamber aboard the USS Falcon after its final trip to the USS Squalus after the submarine sank , May 23, 1939.

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