V-mail
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right|thumb|Poster from World War II promoting the use of V-mail
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Operation and function
- {{anchor|airgraph}}<!-- [[Airgraph]] redirects here--> British 'Airgraph'
- Historical antecedents
- In literature
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
right|thumb|Poster from World War II promoting the use of V-mail
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 abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and printed back to paper upon arrival at its destination. The V-mail process is based on the earlier British Airgraph process.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “V-mail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.