This envelope, postmarked January 1946 through the U.S. Army Postal Service, carried a letter from PFC Ross Moon to Miss Marianne Sammiet of Richmond, California. Free military mail privileges, marked here by a handwritten 'free' notation in place of a stamp, allowed service members to correspond with loved ones at no cost -- a small but meaningful benefit during the anxious months of postwar demobilization. Project: 218342