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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An aviator stands beside an old propeller plane as another man works in the cockpit.

Airplane Pose

Marine Corps 1st Lt. Christian F. Schilt stands beside his airplane, a Vought 020-1 Corsair. Schilt earned the Medal of Honor by making 10 flights into Quilali, Nicaragua, carrying 1,400 pounds of medicine and supplies to trapped troops and then flying 18 wounded men out of the besieged village.

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