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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A ship sits in the ocean as heavy smokes rises in the background.

USS President Jackson

The USS President Jackson maneuvers under Japanese air attack off Guadalcanal, Nov. 12, 1942. In the center background is smoke from an enemy plane that had just crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco, which is steaming away in the right center.

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