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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A helicopter lands on a helipad on a small boat beached near a jungle.

Ready for Landing

A UH-1D evacuation helicopter comes in for a landing on an armored troop carrier, which has a helipad mounted on its deck, at My Tho River, Vietnam, Oct. 31, 1967.

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