Pinderhughes Family Correspondence (Ms.2024.018)

Letters written by Sergeant Lloyd A. "Stevie" Pinderhughes, his brother, Corporal Denard James "Jimmie" Pinderhughes Jr., their friends Captain J.W. "Walter" Fisher and Earle W. Fisher, who were also serving in the military. The letters were written to Stevie and Jimmie's sister Elizabeth Pinderhughes and to their mother Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Pinderhughes. The letters contain family matters along with some mentions of general locations. V-mail, short for Victory Mail, was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. To reduce the cost of transferring an original letter through the military postal system, a V-mail letter would be censored, copied to film, and printed back to paper in miniature upon arrival at its destination. The V-mail process is based on the earlier British Airgraph process.