Women photograph mail during V-mail processing 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 recording operation, using the Recordak machines. These operators photograph approximately seventeen hundred letters on each 100 foot roll of film, and can be done in about three quarters of an hour." 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
Women--Military service--New Guinea
Correspondence--New Guinea
Post offices--New Guinea
Machinery