V-Mail microfilm strip

1945

This portion of single-perforated 16 mm V-Mail microfilm has 20 rectangular perforations with rounded corners. The Kodak edge code of a square followed by a circle denotes the film reel was manufactured in 1945. This strip of microfilm contains the images of nine V-Mail letters written between October 9 and 11, 1945 by various civilians from Washington, DC; New York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. These letters were addressed to naval service members with San Francisco Fleet Post Office numbers. The first letter is written by Mrs. India A. Thompson, Truth Hall, Howard University, Washington, DC, to her husband M.W. Thompson in the US Navy. The ninth letter addressed to George S. Bott with the US Navy was sent by Miss M. J. Handzes of New York and includes a line drawing of a groom carrying a bride over a threshold with a baby in a basket and a typed caption: "ADVICE TO PEOPLE WHO PREFER THE EASY WAY."