Kimpo Air Base, South Korea, Aug. 26, 1956: Bags and bags of mail get unloaded off of a C-124 Globemaster. The Army Postal Service delivered more than four million pounds of mail and packages to Korea-based soldiers in the first six months of 1956.

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