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Show 1 . America In Action I DOCUMENTS GO BY PHOTOMAIL In using Photomail for the transport trans-port of its official documents the army is practicing -what it preaches when it urges soldiers and those with whom they correspond to save valuable cargo space by using V-maiL V-maiL Photomail can now be sent overseas over-seas to any place where V-mail stations sta-tions are established, and the army is taking advantage of the opportunities opportu-nities thus offered to save vital space on its transport planes. Microfilmed Mi-crofilmed official papers, including such bulky mail as training manuals, manu-als, are being dispatched by Photomail Photo-mail to its many theaters of operations opera-tions through the Photomail service, signal corps, army service forces. The principal of Photomail is almost al-most identical with that of V-mail, except that in the case of official documents their security is safeguarded safe-guarded thoroughly. Briefly the process consists of photographing pho-tographing documents on 16-mm. film. Approximately 1,600 average length letters can be photographed on 100 feet of film, each letter being be-ing reduced in size 17 times. The films are then dispatched by transport trans-port planes to their destinations, where they are printed and distributed distrib-uted like regular mail. If the films are of documents of a highly confidential confi-dential nature they are transported by courier. Photomail and V-mail represent great advances from the original filming of mail, which is credited to the French during the seige of Paris in 1870. Then, it is said, mail was photographed, reduced in size and transported by the now almost obsolete ob-solete carrier pigeon. Photomail, like V-maiL was developed by joint effort of the army pictorial service of the signal corps and the army postal service of the office of the adjutant general. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |