V-mail. In the V-mail room at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C., an armed courier delivers letters for filming and reproducing at the official photo mail station. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes

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V-mail. In the V-mail room at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C., an armed courier delivers letters for filming and reproducing at the official photo mail station. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes

Digital ID: (digital file from original neg.) fsa 8b08023 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b08023
Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-008904 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b08023 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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V-mail. In the V-mail room at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C., an armed courier delivers letters for filming and reproducing at the official photo mail station. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes

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