Snapshot of U.S. Air Force servicemen working to clear the remnants of a massive pile of sand bags near a building and airfield at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, South Korea, around 1955 or 1956. A military jeep for the 6147th Tactical Control Group is seen in the foreground parked next to a dirt drainage ditch, and an Air Force helicopter is parked in the background on the airfield. Photograph taken or collected by Thomas E. Voliva of Tyrrell County, NC, while he was serving in the 48th Communications Radio Shop, 6148th Tactical Control Squadron, U.S. Air Force, at Kimpo Air Base [circa 1955-1956].

From Thomas E. Voliva Photographs, CLDW 100, Cold War Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.

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Owner: State Archives of North Carolina
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