V-Mail letter sheet
National Postal Museum

V-Mail letter sheet

July 19, 1943

machine made paper; printing ink (black); writing ink (dark blue and black); transfer ink (dark blue and purple); pencil
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

Early V-Mail forms were printed all in black. Red printing became prevalent so that postal clerks could more easily spot the V-Mails, but some locations had to make do with printing ink available when they had to create additional stationery stocks for deployed military personnel.

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