V-Mail from USS Indianapolis

[bootsandbooks]

date unknown, but the sender was a survivor, one of 10 from Texas

 

I suppose these are pretty standard items produced aboard ship

[PoorFarm]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[stahlguy]

Very Interesting, Thanks For The Photo.

[aerialbridge]

Clever and good drawing. Thanks for sharing it,

[Thor996]

I doubt that was standard issue- more like sailor doodle. but still very cool,

[bootsandbooks]

I doubt that was standard issue- more like sailor doodle. but still very cool,

 

Possibly, but is gives the appearance of having been mimeographed.

 

I had to look up Ulithi but might be able to date the time(s) the USS Indianapolis was there. Odd that it passed the censors.

 

I've seen other examples of whimsical messages. My FIL had hand copied a similar poem when he was in the Philippines and my father had sent home some similar items from Guadalcanal. When I departed Vietnam someone handed me a mimeographed letter "to the folks at home" humorously explaining or forewarning odd behavior - can't recall it all but included such as "sleeping with boots on" and "running out in the rain to catch a helmet full of water". It ended with "put some beer on ice, steaks on the grill, and get the women and girls off the street, the kid is coming home!' I've got WWII examples with almost the same prose.

 

Here's another shipboard example.

[Thor996]

 

Possibly, but is gives the appearance of having been mimeographed.

 

I had to look up Ulithi but might be able to date the time(s) the USS Indianapolis was there. Odd that it passed the censors.

 

I've seen other examples of whimsical messages. My FIL had hand copied a similar poem when he was in the Philippines and my father had sent home some similar items from Guadalcanal. When I departed Vietnam someone handed me a mimeographed letter "to the folks at home" humorously explaining or forewarning odd behavior - can't recall it all but included such as "sleeping with boots on" and "running out in the rain to catch a helmet full of water". It ended with "put some beer on ice, steaks on the grill, and get the women and girls off the street, the kid is coming home!' I've got WWII examples with almost the same prose.

 

Here's another shipboard example.

 

you have a point-after going back and looking at this and comparing against some newspapers i have from the indy around this time period, these very well could have been done on mimeo as the artwork is similar to some in the Deep Sea Daily ships newsletter- and I personally think its a very cool vmail any way you look at it