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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Six men in early 1900s garb stand in a field beside the earliest model of a military airplane.

Wright Military Flyer

The Wright brothers and some Army Signal Corps soldiers work on the Wright Military Flyer as they test it out at Fort Myer, Virginia, 1909.

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