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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Construction begins on a massive plot of land. In the distance is the Washington Monument.

Pentagon View

The first side of the Pentagon begins to take shape on a plot of land in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from the Washington Monument, Nov. 5, 1941.

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