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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 629194, member: 56&quot;]Going through the family papers, I came across a bunch of these.&nbsp; This is a photograph of a letter written home by an uncle who served overseas in the U.S. army in WWII.&nbsp; It’s small… smaller than a postcard. The image measures 4 ¾” by 3 ¾”.&nbsp; This is V-mail, and it’s the way mail from U.S. soldiers overseas was processed.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]182142[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The “V”, of course, stood for victory.&nbsp; There was a standard form used to write the letter:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]182143[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]182146[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Soldiers in the States could apparently just mail the form:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]182148[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]182149[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But the procedure overseas was different.&nbsp; The soldier would use the same form, but after writing the letter, it was censored and then photographed.&nbsp; The film was sent back to the States where it was processed into that small format and mailed.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]182150[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So small.&nbsp; I don’t see how you could read one without a magnifying glass.&nbsp; I didn’t even try until after they were scanned.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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