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MAIL AND COURIER SERVICE ACTIVITIES IN THE A.E.F. 1917-1919 Reel 2 · Part 2
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Reel 1, Christmas (1918) mail is unloaded from a freighter at Bordeaux. Mail is sorted, chemically examined, and loaded onto railroad cars. Shows mail centers at Bourges, France, and Coblenz, Germany. Reel 2, mail is loaded on trucks. Soldiers receive mail; German prisoners open packages. An Army courier boards the freighter Kroonland. Reel 3, couriers debark from the Northern Pacific at Bordeaux. The courier mail is sorted, carried by motorcycle, and is loaded on an airplane.
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
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1936-01-01
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3:04