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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Soldiers sitting in a cockpit wearing World War II-era cold-weather flying clothes hold a pigeon.

Pigeon Prep

Army Air Corpsmen inside a B-18 Bolo bomber cockpit attach a capsule containing a message written on onion-skin paper to a carrier pigeon’s leg before releasing the bird over Hawaii in January 1943.

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