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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Service members relax behind a rock wall amid debris from war.

Rest Period

Tired Marines of the 6th Marine Division rest behind a protected wall as they pause their fight with the Japanese for possession of Naha, a city in the southern part of Okinawa, in May 1945.

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