For families, sweethearts and friends separated during the Second World War, the U.S. mail service was vitally important as a means of communication. Today's soldiers can send and receive email messages or speak to loved ones by telephone from all over the world.
This photograph shows a young staff nurse working in a hospital in Covallis, Oregon, writing a letter to her husband in the service during World War II.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1944
Identifer: location R2.2 p76
