i heard through a friend that in ww2 every letter wrote was sent to the war department to get sensered and they made a copy i am just wondering becouse my great grandpa letters have been lost over the years it might be a long shot but every body on this site are so helpfull just need a little info thanks and god bless
Letters written by Soldiers were censored of any possible sensitive information. But normally at no higher than Company level. They were not copied.
I think your friend is confusing V-mail with copying of letters. To save weight, letters were written on special V-mail forms which were then photographed and shrank to microfilm size. When they got to the States, the letters were reproduced full size.
