I was watching Band of Brother and wondering how those paratroopers got letters from home. Did their family need to know their nearest base? Or could they simply write their name and battallion? If I want to mail a package to a sailor do I just the ship’s name? Or a port? I’m not actually mailing anything I’m just curious how that works. How much postage do you need to mail to a ship overseas?

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    They had their letters delivered to them at their duty station APO before their mission deployment. There’s no fucking way they could get a letter from home in the middle of combat during Operation Overlord.

    I’m sure you imagine a Skyrim courier interrupting a U.S. soldier brutally wrestling and slitting a Nazi throat to tell him your grandmother said hi with included slutty nude photo in a Western Union telegram.