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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Thick, black smoke fills the sky above several burning ships; one ship capsizes.

Pearl Harbor

In a historic photo, the battleship USS Oklahoma, foreground, capsizes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. The battleship USS Maryland is behind the Oklahoma; the battleship USS West Virginia is on the right.

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