I know this is not really dealing with Army Red tape but figure this is the best place to ask this question.  When addressing a letter do you place a return address on the envelope?   I looked at Sullivan Press's originals and they did not have one but they were only a couple examples.  Was return address not done or were they placed on the back of the envelope?  As a child, I  received a few letters from elderly family members that had the return address was on the back of the envelope centered on the flap.   I just want to make sure the letters I’m writing are done right.  

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I don’t know the answer but would be interested in seeing it.  My grandmother was 93 when she died in 1983.  She always put return addresses on the back flap of envelops

Hi Mark,
 I own several, and have seen many more, original used envelopes of the era, and not a single one has a return address on it. Hope this helped.
Joe

From the few that I have seen, the writer especially in the military told them how to address the letter in the closing statement.  Assume they did the mail the same way it is done now in the military is to send it to a center area and forward to the unit when they know they are going to be there for awhile.  In a book I am reading now about Lee's march to Gettysburg, it stated that there was mail in Richmond waiting to send to the troops.