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Yongsan chapel fire, 1967
Stars and Stripes
May 20, 2021
Howard Benedict ©Stars and StripesSeoul, South Korea, December 25, 1967: Firefighters struggle to control a Christmas Night blaze that eventually destroyed the main post chapel at Yongsan Compound. An investigation later pointed to faulty wiring as the cause of the fire.
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