The Army Postal System

Each person had an address card that was kept on file at the directory service. So once in europe, mary's package would move through the army postal system until reaching the a p o on the address label. And then a mail clerk was responsible for getting the mail from the a p O to the soldier. The scale of this entire operation was huge. In 19 forty one, there were just a few thousand american service members in europe. But by 19 forty five, there were unestimated seven million americans in the european theatre of operations. This included members of the military, along with civilian specialists, nurses, red cross volunteers, elected officials conducting tours and