The United States War and Navy Departments initiated a V-Mail Service using the technology of the day to efficiently transmit the mail of solders and sailors serving in that great Campaign to Defeat Tyranny.
Letters from senders were copied by micro-film to produce a miniature photographic negative of the message, which was then transmitted out of the war zone to the anxious family and ‘future family’ waiting for word of their solder’s and sailor’s well-being.
Known as V-MAIL (certainly for Victory) the service provided the most expeditious dispatch and reduced the weight of mail to and from personnel of our Armed Forces outside the continential United States. When addressed to points where micro-film equipment is operated, a miniature photographic negative of the message was made and sent by the most expeditious transportation available for reproduction and delivery. The original message was destroyed after the reproduction was delivered. Messages addressed to or from points where micro-film equipment was not operated were transmitted in their original form by the most expeditious means available.
V-Mail letters were sent free of postage by members of the Armed Forces. Others paid the domestic rates
