Women inspect and cut individual letters from rolls of paper during V-mail processing 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. "Paper chopping. At these choppers each letter is handcut from the roll and here the culls or bad letters are pulled out. Approximately twenty minutes is required to completely chop a full roll 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
Women--Military service--New Guinea
Machinery
Correspondence--New Guinea