Page 19 - The Dispatch December 2019

TEXAS GUARD ARTIFACT OF THE MONTH

Victory Mail
In order to save space in valuable transport
ships and aircraft, the U.S. military developed
Victory-Mail, or V-Mail. Letters were written
on a standardized form that was then photo-
graphed and reduced to microfilm for ship-
ment. When the correspondence reached its
destination, it was printed at a reduced size
for delivery. During the war, military units
provided their personnel with V-Mail ver-
sions of greeting cards for various holidays
such as Easter, New Year and Christmas.

Victory-Mail Christmas letters sent home from Italy in 1943 by Tech. Sgt. Doyle Reed of
Niotaze, Kan., who served in the 36th Signal Company and from France in 1944 by Staff
Sgt. William J. Hennessy of Houston, Texas, from Company I, 142nd Infantry.

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