Field Service Postcards were designed to allow soldiers to quickly send information home about their current situation, since they did not require review by censors. No additional information could be added to the postcard, though soldiers…
Lloyd Logan sent this postcard to a family member in Arlington, Massachusetts during his military service. He marked the location of his room in this building, the temporary premises of the American Y.M.C.A., with an X on the right side.
In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Elisabeth Gilman says of this canteen: "From three to six in the afternoon and from eight to eleven in the evening men come for a cup of chocolate and a sandwich. For the boys are as hungry over here as at…