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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 3532922, member: 11668"]These were used to pay our troops in WWII, first in North Africa but later in other locations in the Mediterranean theater too. The idea is that the distinctive seal color made them easy to identify, so that if the enemy ever managed to capture a whole shipment of them, they wouldn't be able to put them into circulation. As it turned out, that never happened, and after the war a lot of them ended up in circulation domestically when the troops came home.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were also notes overprinted with the word HAWAII that served the same function in the Pacific theater, being issued first in Hawaii but later used in various other places where U.S. troops were stationed in the Pacific.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 3532922, member: 11668"]These were used to pay our troops in WWII, first in North Africa but later in other locations in the Mediterranean theater too. The idea is that the distinctive seal color made them easy to identify, so that if the enemy ever managed to capture a whole shipment of them, they wouldn't be able to put them into circulation. As it turned out, that never happened, and after the war a lot of them ended up in circulation domestically when the troops came home. There were also notes overprinted with the word HAWAII that served the same function in the Pacific theater, being issued first in Hawaii but later used in various other places where U.S. troops were stationed in the Pacific.[/QUOTE]
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