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A tardy Christmas

A post office snafu made headlines in 1951 when a package of $250 worth of Christmas gifts, intended for an Ennis family, dropped out of an airplane onto a plantation in Louisiana.

Air Force Capt. C. L. Muirhead of Ennis was en route from Washington, D.C. to Fort Worth aboard his bomber when he opened the bomb bay door to check on a vibration. The package holding presents for his family had shifted…

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