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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Buildings lay in rubble.

Bomb Damage

Bomb damage at an oil refinery at Ploesti, Romania, during World War II. Allied aircraft dropped bombs on the area, destroying fuel depots that aided the Nazis.

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