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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two men talk near a propeller airplane while two other men lounge in the background.

Lindbergh and McGuire

Famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh with Maj. Thomas B. McGuire (left). During the summer of 1944, Lindbergh visited the Southwest Pacific Theatre and devised economical flight techniques to extend the range of P-38 fighters.

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