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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Three soldiers with rifles walk beside a tank along a tattered street in a town surrounded by several buildings.

Pillbox Emplacement

A U.S. Army tank destroyer M36 fires its 90 mm gun point-blank at a Nazi pillbox emplacement to clear a path through a side street in Brest, France, September 1944.

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