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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An aircraft carrier goes up in smoke.

USS Bunker Hill

The aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill sinks after being hit by two kamikazes off the coast of Kyushu, Japan, May 11, 1945.

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