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I have acquired a box of hundreds of WW II V-Mail letters. They are dated from 1941 thru 1945.
Lots of interesting stuff here.
enjoy
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Wow, what a haul!
I hope you'll share a few interesting tidbits.
Great group-- they are a lot of work to read, but you will probably find some great details in there!
Scott
Great find. I guess you're going to pop a huge bowl of popcorn and start reading. Please share a few interesting notes.
Lots of good reading ! great find . Love it packrat
Thank you Manikin, Lostinspace, ThriftyGypsy, scottvez, & Chrisnp. You are correct, a lot of great reading, however, the print is so small on the V-Mail that I have to use a magnifying glass, my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
I know that feeling packrat ! I just had to use a magnifier to call in number for a prescription off the bottle ! Are they making print smaller on medicine bottles it can't be my eyes LOL .
thank you very much walksoftly & scandinavian_pieces
Wow... would love to get my hands on this stuff
nice lot! probably full of amazing stories, and heartbreaking ones as well. Where did you find this lot? Something like this should be preserved, as these stories will be lost for ever when the war vets die....
thank you very much RottenVintage, tlmbaran & AR8Jason, cwork & avidgenie.
Packrat: I remember some of the letters we received during WW2-took a long time getting here and some of them had a lot of the wording blacked out.Wished we had saved them-Thanks for sharing your pick with us-if you get a chance please share some of the letters.
thank you sayer34, I will when I get a chance.