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Monograph #4 -- U.S. Postal Censorship during World War I

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by John Hardies and Bill (Wilfrid N.) Broderick

Introduction

This is the fourth monograph in a series produced by members of the Military Postal History Society, published in August 2025.

Content

This monograph covers the distinct systems of postal censorship used to protect the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. It organizes and incorporates previously published data with more recently acquired and analyzed material, together with documentation from the US National Archives.

Both AEF postal censorship and censorship governed by the Censorship Board are included. In addition, the monograph covers postal censorship of the American Occupation of Germany, and censorship activities that closely related to US censorship.

Publicly accessible:

Table of Contents Pages

Auxiliary Material

The Auxiliary Material includes:

A history of MI-10, the Censorship Section of the Negative Branch of military intelligence.

and

Letters sent in 1939 between C. M. Busbee, Lieut-Colonel, General Staff, Executive Officer, G-2 and Captain Edward H. Flood.

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