Servicemen check bags of V-mail that have been loaded onto a plane in Papua New Guinea in 1944

Gift of John M. Lynes Sr., from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "The final act at the airstrip with the mail truck, containing letters for the States and for the troops, pulled alongside the plane." 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.
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Port Moresby
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-9.500
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147.117
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V-mail
Soldiers--American--New Guinea
Airplanes--American--New Guinea
Correspondence--New Guinea