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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several men crowd around a 1940s-era radio sitting just inside a tent.

AFN World War II

During World War II, airmen of the 443Rd Signal Construction Battalion stationed on Okinawa, Japan, listen to an Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast about the end of the hostilities in Europe, May 8, 1945.

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