
V-mail - Wikipedia
V-mail, short for Victory Mail, was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed …
Mail Call: V-mail | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
V-mail, short for “Victory mail,” was a postal system put into place during the war to free up room for other valuable supplies. Between June 1942 and November 1945, over 1 billion V-mails …
V-Mail - National Postal Museum
V, or Victory mail, was a valuable tool for the military during World War II. The process, which originated in England, was the microfilming of specially designed letter sheets.
Victory Mail - National Postal Museum
Mar 6, 2008 · Victory Mail, more commonly known as V-Mail, operated during World War II to expedite mail service for American armed forces overseas. Moving the rapidly expanding …
Developed and operated in cooperation with the War and Navy Departments, V-Mail reduced the weight and bulk of military mail, creating more space for other, vital military cargo and …
V-Mail: The WWII program that scanned letters onto microfilm, …
Apr 14, 2022 · The US military postal service adopted this process renaming it “Victory Mail”, or “V-Mail” for short, and it proved extremely effective. The savings of this system were …
Snail Mail to the Rescue: V-Mail During WWII - Kalamazoo Valley …
Jun 1, 2024 · Introduced in 1942, Victory Mail, or V-mail, was created after the United States Post Office Department and other governmental units studied Great Britain’s Aerograph system, …
Operating V-mail - National Postal Museum
The Post Office, War, and Navy Departments worked together to ensure V-Mail for civilians and service members around the world. Numerous personnel, expensive pieces of equipment, …
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WWII V-Mail
To reduce the amount of valuable cargo space letters were taking up on ships, government officials created Vic- tory Mail, or V-Mail, a system modeled off of the British Airgraph Service. …
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"My Dearest Husband": How V-mail Changed War Communication. Short for "Victory Mail," V-mail was developed by Eastman Kodak and was the main way soldiers stationed abroad were able …