Mail and Courier Service Activities in the A.E.F., 1917-1919

(This film is silent)
National Archives Identifier: 24903
Local Identifier: 111-H-1401
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24903

From: Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Other Title(s):Historical Film, No. 1401

Scope & Content: 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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