A soldier unloads V-mail from a truck into an incinerator in Papua New Guinea in 1944
Gift of John M. Lynes Sr., from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
Description:
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "All V-Mail is destroyed by burning in this incinerator. This insures the privacy of V-Mail." Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 1944
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Items from the service of Mary Lynes, Women's Army Corps (WAC), who served in the Pacific.
Geography:
Port Moresby
Latitude:
-9.500
Longitude:
147.117
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
V-mail
Soldiers--American--New Guinea
Correspondence--New Guinea
Trucks--American--New Guinea
Incinerators--New Guinea