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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A half-sunk ship juts out of water.

USS Arizona

The USS Arizona sits burned out and partially sunk in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 10, 1941, three days after being destroyed during the Japanese raid that launched the U.S. into World War II.

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