The actual story is they showed up at the ass end of the war and sorted mail while troops were going home. They definitely did something useful, but not anything movie worthy. I did however find out about the WW2 vmail system looking into the story. The US would take 16mm captures of letters and reprint them at the destination, saved 98% of cargo space in the middle of a war where room was sacred and was utilized on over a billion pieces of mail.
It made it easier to redact the mail, too. My grandfather still had some redacted letters from home where she talked about the neighbors farm yield and local news. This carried on for a while as I remember. Maybe through the Korean conflict?
I never thought to ask my grandfather about letters from my grandmother. I was too busy asking about battle details lol but they would’ve been cool to see
It’s Netflix. I’d be interested to see the actual story vs the Netflix take on things.
The actual story is they showed up at the ass end of the war and sorted mail while troops were going home. They definitely did something useful, but not anything movie worthy. I did however find out about the WW2 vmail system looking into the story. The US would take 16mm captures of letters and reprint them at the destination, saved 98% of cargo space in the middle of a war where room was sacred and was utilized on over a billion pieces of mail.
That I didn’t know.
It made it easier to redact the mail, too. My grandfather still had some redacted letters from home where she talked about the neighbors farm yield and local news. This carried on for a while as I remember. Maybe through the Korean conflict?
I never thought to ask my grandfather about letters from my grandmother. I was too busy asking about battle details lol but they would’ve been cool to see