V-Mail facsimile letter and envelope
National Postal Museum

V-Mail facsimile letter and envelope

April 2, 1944

paper; ink
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

V-mail envelope (.1) and facsimile letter (.2) written to Dr. Doris M. Cochran, Associate Curator of Reptiles at the Smithsonian, US National Museum, from Capt. Leonard W. Jarcho, 0-512451, Med Det 362d AAA SL Bn, APO #709, c/o Poster San Francisco, Calif. Captain Jarcho discusses collecting reptiles for the museum. Dr. Jarcho (1916-1996) served with the US Army Medical Corps in the Pacific during World War II. He rose to the rank of major and at the war's end, returned to medical teaching and practice.

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