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During World War II, both the Allies and Axis instituted postal censorship of civil mail. The largest organisations were those of the United States , though the United Kingdom employed about 10,000 censor staff while Ireland , a small neutral country, only employed about 160 censors.
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 ...
Manhattan Federal Building with Office of Censorship at 252 7th Avenue in 1945. The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941, to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and going out of the United States, including its territories and the Philippines. [1]
During World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — nicknamed the Six Triple Eight — was the first and only unit of color in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) stationed in Europe.
An employee pin from United States Office of Censorship during World War II. The "Radio Priest" Charles Coughlin started broadcasting in 1926 and entertained an audience of millions in the 1930s, but became increasingly anti-democratic, antisemitic, and sympathetic to Nazi Germany. Coughlin was denied a license when the government first started ...
The Post employed Germans, Volksdeutsche and Poles. The post used at the beginning both Polish and German stamps with Deutsche Post Osten and Generalgouvernement overprints, later its own stamps. Its president was Richard Lauxmann. [6] The Deutsche Post Osten serviced ghettos in GG till 1941. Later Judenrats took over the service. [7]
1840 1 May - United Kingdom issues the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue, the world's first postage stamps. 1840 6 May - The Penny Black and Two Pence Blue, world's first postage stamps, become valid for the pre-payment of postage. 1842 1 February City Despatch Post New York local post. 1843 1 March - Zürich issue their first stamps: Zürich 4 and 6.
The British were the first to forge the Hitler head stamp in 3, 4, 6 and 8-pfennig values from 1941 until the end of the war. [2] These stamps were of better quality versus the Americans' attempt at forgery because the British used actual stamp production facilities whereas the Americans did not have access to quality ingredients such as paper, ink or engravers. [2]