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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A wounded sailor is suspended above choppy seas during a ship-to-ship transfer.

Transfer at Sea

The wounded from the sinking aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill are transferred to the light cruiser USS Wilkes-Barre off the coast of Kyushu, Japan, May 11, 1945.

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