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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two young men in sailor uniforms load an antiaircraft gun while an older man in an officer’s uniform looks on.

Coast Guard Cmdr. Dempsey

Coast Guard Cmdr. William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey looks on as two Coast Guardsmen load an antiaircraft gun in the Pacific theater in 1944.

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