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1946 (Sep 17) Airmail envelope to Copenhagen & forwarded to Nostvad from S/Sgt Yeong Hwan Kim, C-8 ., R.O.K. Navy 5738 Units 768-78 bearing horizontal strip 3 x 100w tied APO 209 /Korea cds …………………..After being under the control of the Japanese until the end of WW2 Korea now had to contend with new masters the Russians in the north & USA in the south with the 38 parallel acting as the divide of borders. There was discontent and indeed military action between the N & S that eventually led to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950… Military related mail from this period is seldom encountered