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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A soldier’s rifle sticks straight up in the sand on a beach with a helmet on it. A box of ammo sits in the foreground.

Normandy Beachhead

The beachhead is secure, but the price was high. A U.S. Coast Guard photographer came upon this monument to a dead American soldier somewhere on the shell-blasted shore of Normandy shortly after D-Day.

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