APO 34 FLORENCE ITALY 1945 Army Cover Censored WWII 168th Infantry V-MAIL Letter
It was sent 18 Jan 1945. It was sent from John Nauiokaitis to Necedah, WI. It was franked "Penalty".
This cover is in good, but NOT perfect condition. Please look at the scan and make your own judgement.
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V-mail, short for Victory Mail, was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and printed back to paper upon arrival at its destination. The V-mail process is based on the earlier British Airgraph process.[1][2]