1948 KOREA – USA…AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT.. [21350]

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1948 (Mar 16) Airmail envelope to Denver from Fred Swazo 5509, 1st Station Hospital, APO 6 Unit 2 bearing 5c Airmail & 1c Prexie wing margin tied 4 bars APO 1054 & with on face Help Crippled Chidren charity label with on reverse a further 4 in a marginal block of 4……On 8 Sep the Amercan Military Government was established, General MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander to South West Pacific appointed General Hodge to look after Korea which had been occupied by Japan for over 30 years and he was not sympathetic to the people’s wants resulting in problems and a general strike in Feb 1948 & uprising’s began in April against US policies continuing more or less to the begining of the Korean war…see :- The many Internet website’s dealing with this interesting 5 year period a run up to the Korean war

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