Combining America's favorite pastime with pointed anti-Axis satire, this 1944 Seabee V-Mail sheet depicts a sailor 'striking out' a caricatured Nazi officer with a baseball bat. Such imagery was a common wartime device, using humor and familiar cultural symbols to boost morale and frame the war effort in plain, defiant terms. Sent by a Seabee of the Naval Construction Battalions to Miss Beatrice Cory in San Francisco on 28 September 1944, it passed through official naval censorship before reaching home. Project: 218674