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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Smoke billows from a burning ship.

Bunker Hill

The U.S. aircraft carrier Bunker Hill burns after being struck by two Japanese kamikaze aircraft, May 11, 1945, in the waters between Okinawa and Kyushu, Japan.

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