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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

People in civilian clothes walk on a path with a truck in the rear and someone on horseback beside them.

Liberating POWs

The Army's 6th Ranger Infantry Battalion liberates American prisoners of war from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, Philippines, Jan. 30, 1945.

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