V-Mail Envelopes, set of 5, for US GI Reenactment, WW2 Ephemera, Pocket Filler, Historical Reenacment, Reproduction, Replica Film Prop

The stationery was custom designed to meet the functions of V-Mail service, which postal and military officials introduced to handle the dramatic increase in wartime overseas mail exchanges. V-Mail used standardized stationery and microfilm processing to produce lighter, smaller cargo. Less space needed for mail made more space available for other war supplies. And, more letters could reach their destination faster around the globe. The lighter letters (whether dispatched in original form or microfilmed) allowed V-Mail to travel aboard swift airplanes rather than slow boats.



An Airborne unit is given V-Mail blanks for their last letters before leaving England for the continent, June 6, 1944.