V_Mail

Sometime, about the middle of the war, the postal service initiated a more efficient postal program, called the V-mail. It was smaller, took up less space, and could reach even the remotest places in the world in nine or ten days. It was quicker than regular mail and boosted the morale of the soldiers. [Click here to read a V-mail from Gerald Voss]

This is a V-mail received by Marjorie (Sippel) Kronenberg.

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An increase of 587 per cent in outgoing V-mail and of 973 per cent in incoming V-mail is reported by the Army Post Office for the month of January 1944 as compared with January 1943.

Total figures cited by the Army are 21,996,549 outgoing V-mail letters and 23,460,795 incoming V-mail letters for the month, as compared with 3,199,969 outgoing and 2,184,434 incoming for January 1943. This makes January 1944 the largest V-mail month since the start of the service.

The Army credits this great growth of the V-mail service to the increased realization on the part of letter writers that V-mail is the only mail whose safe arrival can be guaranteed, and that it is the only mail that always travels by air. Though it is logical that more letters should be written as more and more men are sent overseas, the percentage increase in V-mail use is many times more than the percentage increase in numbers of men overseas.

V-mail received by Harold (Diz) Kronenberg from his pal, Glen Paape Posted July 21, 1944