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In this paper we study the interaction between two two-level atoms with a two-mode quantized field in the presence of damping. Dipole–dipole interaction between the two atoms and the correlation between the two modes of field are also taken into account. To solve the model, using appropriate transformations, we reduce the considered model to a well-known Jaynes–Cummings model. After finding the analytical solution for the atom–field system, the effects of damping, field–field correlation and atomic dipole–dipole interaction on the entanglement between atoms and population inversion are investigated, numerically. It is observed that the dynamical behavior of the degree of entanglement for damped systems, in relatively large domains of time, takes a low but constant value adequately far from the beginning of the interaction. In addition, it is found that the value of population inversion after the initial oscillations takes negative values for damped systems and eventually vanishes by increasing time. Also, it is seen that simultaneous presence of both dipole–dipole interaction and field–field correlation provides typical collapse–revival phenomenon in the time-behavior of atomic inversion.