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<p>[QUOTE="prestoncohunter, post: 633686, member: 10899"]Very cool find. We have a few that my FIL's older brother wrote home from Germany on them. Very interesting to read. One was mailed the day the 2nd atom bomb was dropped and his youngest brother was already in the Pacific.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most probably already know this but one primary reason was space to get mail overseas, one mail bag of V-Mail would be equal to appx 10 bags of standard mail (or something along those lines) regardless it allowed a lot more mail to be sent in smaller space.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="prestoncohunter, post: 633686, member: 10899"]Very cool find. We have a few that my FIL's older brother wrote home from Germany on them. Very interesting to read. One was mailed the day the 2nd atom bomb was dropped and his youngest brother was already in the Pacific. Most probably already know this but one primary reason was space to get mail overseas, one mail bag of V-Mail would be equal to appx 10 bags of standard mail (or something along those lines) regardless it allowed a lot more mail to be sent in smaller space.[/QUOTE]
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