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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several landing craft are on a shoreline; a vehicle sits on the beach nearby. Dozens of men work around the vehicles.

Supply Ship

Allied landing craft land supplies on the beach west of St. Rafael during the invasion of southern France, Aug. 20, 1944.

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