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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A massive plume of smoke billows from a battleship.

Pearl Harbor Attack

Smoke billows from the USS California after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. The crew was quickly ordered to abandon ship.

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