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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 ...
North Korean pilot No Kum-Sok, who later took the name Kenneth Rowe, at the Kimpo Air Base near Seoul after flying a MiG-15 across the border to defect in September 1953.
Ward Hitt Jr., a member of the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group based at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, chronicled the early days of the F-86 in combat in a detailed scrapbook, part of the National Air ...
Said Air Force Major General William H. Tunner, a World War II commander of the India-China airlift: "We who worked the Hump always knew that what was done there could be picked up bodily, ...
On a clear morning in late September 1953, seven weeks after the Korean War armistice, crews at the U.S.-run Kimpo Air Base near Seoul were astonished to see an unannounced warplane roaring in ...
Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 10, 1960: Children from the Pubwon Orphanage near Seoul greet the “Christmas Sleigh” — the C-97 Stratofreighter of the New Hampshire Air National Guard — at Kimpo ...
The National Air and Space Museum's F-86A was assigned to the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, in July 1949. It was shipped to Japan in December 1950 with other F-86s ...
According to the U.S. Air Force Police Alumni Association, the history behind the Air Force Combat Arms Training program evolved from an incident that happened during the Korean War when Kimpo Air ...
“There were dependents at Kimpo Air Force Base and Seoul City, so they shipped the dependents right to Itazuke Air Base in Japan, where I was, and sent us over (to Korea).” ...
Ward Hitt Jr., a member of the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group based at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, chronicled the early days of the F-86 in combat in a detailed scrapbook, part of the National Air ...