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Show MORE V-MAIL MUST BE USED IN 194S Use of V-mail by civilians in writing to service men overseas must be stepped up in 1945 to conserve critically needed trans port space, the Office of War Information In-formation reported today on the basis of facts from the army and navy. An intensified campaign urging the public to increase its use of V-mail will be opened January 1, 1945, by the War and Navy departments with the cooperation co-operation of OWI. While the total volume of army and navy V-mail, incoming and outgoing, is almost twice that of 1943, recent drops in the use of the microfilm service by both service men overseas and civilians civil-ians at home has been of concern con-cern to the army and navy. Reasons pointed out by high-ranking high-ranking officers for the importance import-ance of extended V-mail use by the public included: 1. The increase in the number of service men now overseas, with a consequent rise in the volume of mail to be handled. 2. The need for the maximum utilization of cargo space of all kinds, especially in air transport. 3. Extension of supply lines as action progresses in both theaters of war. 4. Continuing importance of a steady, frequent flow of letters to service men's morale. Rear Admiral Joseph R. Redman, Red-man, U.S.N. , Director of Naval Communications, said: "The navy V-mail service was inaugurated to supplement and ease the problems of transportation transporta-tion in the establishment of good mail sendee in wartime. Although the American public has been contributing faithfully in all phases of the war effort, with the crisis at hand, renewed efforts must be expended. The public is asked to share the air-mail space by using V-mail; and in this manner to curtail the present airmail air-mail load, which on occasion back logs and hinders the goal for which the navy is striving getting get-ting the biggest morale builder of all mail to the largest navy na-vy afloat." o |
