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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Soldiers wearing bandages sit against cliffs.

By the Cliffs

Soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, France, wait by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for treatment on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

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