This collection includes the V-Mail letter correspondence that Brigadier General William A. Hagins received during the Second World War, primarily from 1943 to 1945. The vast majority of the V-Mail letters were written by General Hagins' wife, Helen B. Hagins, from her wartime home in Palo Alto, California. Other letters were sent from General Hagins' son, William A. Hagins Jr., personal friends, and professional acquaintances.
V-Mail letters were commonly utilized by the United States Military during the Second World War. These correspondences consisted of letters that had been censored, transferred to film rolls, then reprinted upon arrival at their destinations. This process was intended to vastly reduce the costs of transporting letters from the home front in the United States to the front lines in Europe and the Pacific.
This collection can be found in Box 1 of the William A. Hagins Family Papers collection, located in the Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections division at Georgia Southern University.
