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What was the name of the mail?

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Helldiver

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Maybe there's someone out there that will remember. During WWII we used to get mail from the E.T.O. that was photographed, reduced in size and I believe was telegraphed over to the states. It was the fore-runner of e-mails. Sort of.
I had a ton of them and unfortunatly they're all lost.
Does anybody out there remember these and what they were called? I thought that they were called V-Mail but my wife says I'm wrong.
 
Helldiver said:
Maybe there's someone out there that will remember. During WWII we used to get mail from the E.T.O. that was photographed, reduced in size and I believe was telegraphed over to the states. It was the fore-runner of e-mails. Sort of.
I had a ton of them and unfortunatly they're all lost.
Does anybody out there remember these and what they were called? I thought that they were called V-Mail but my wife says I'm wrong.
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You need to rap the wife's twinkie HD, it was V-mail, stood for Victory Mail, read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail

Caz
 
That's one for our side. Thanks for supporting me. The older I get the fewer battles I win. It's hard as hell to remember what happened sixty five years ago.
I believe that after a period of time they would turn black and that's the reason they were not kept.
It said that it was sent by microfilm but as I remember they also sent it by teletype, because I recieved things written just a few days previous.
 
The guys and gals overseas were getting V-Discs to keep up morale. Nice to have some music from home as you read your mail.

[YOUTUBE]xjAjqGPLX20[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]U9EKpvdLwFo[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]LqBbj62qG8c[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]UuZos0JugsU[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]lztEr3LwKn8[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]J0mAXKWpknM[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]DUF52kJtL3k[/YOUTUBE]
 
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