#B's Vintage Paperstuff

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Some stark, some funny. Cool thrift store find. @doppleganger-rental

June 1, 1943 Our Navy

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Movie TV Secrets, Jan. '62

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@busterkeatonsociety - saw your post about O'Connor in the film so thought I'd snap this for you. Whole article under cut! Enjoy.

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So today I learned about V Mail!

From the wiki:

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.

According to the National Postal Museum, "V-mail ensured that thousands of tons of shipping space could be reserved for war materials. The 37 mail bags required to carry 150,000 one-page letters could be replaced by a single mail sack. The weight of that same amount of mail was reduced dramatically from 2,575 pounds to a mere 45." This saved considerable weight and bulk in a time in which both were hard to manage in a combat zone.

In addition to postal censorship, V-mail also deterred espionage communications by foiling the use of invisible ink, microdots, and microprinting, none of which would be reproduced in a photocopy.

Sharpie for scale.

Might need my magnifying glass for these ones...

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January 1962

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Latest treasure is a small lot of letters from both Korea and WWII - I haven't read them all yet, but highlights so far are this mother-iffic line from a mother to her son, Oct '45:

and this bit from Nov '52, from a troop carrier squadron guy whose barracks buddies were the rowdy sort:

I'm charmed and probably going to be buying more of these. One hadn't even been opened and I had to open it myself -- weird feeling! These are fantastic.

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Photoplay May 1950

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1941

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1939

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Flip Magazine, May 1966

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Sept. 1955

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Flip Magazine May 1966

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16 Magazine, February 1964