Along with letters and postcards, Penn Staters wrote home using Victory Mail, or V-Mail, which was an expedited and more secure form of mail used by the U.S. military during WWII.
One of the roughly 500 letters written to Robert Eiche, the first campus director of Penn State Altoona, by a Penn State Altoona student-turned-service member during World War II.
Penn State student William Moyer and the rest of the Patches crew in England in 1946. During World War II, Moyer was shot down from his plane and was a prisoner of war.