This book, Bluejacket Mail (2014), is a postal history of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during the First World War. This monograph concentrates on only this facility. It came about because my full Facilities book could not contain all of the interesting information about every military camp in the United States from that era. This 42-page monograph helps provide more depth of information, and showcases the letters written in 1918 by Carroll Miller, a sailor training at Great Lakes. His letters show the human side of the great influenza pandemic of 1918, along with his insights of camp and personal life.
The book information is available at the Military Postal History Society webpage
Bob Swanson's WW I Postal History Page
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