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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Heline, post: 478083, member: 16322&quot;]All very true, however, this is Japanese Occupancy money, during the war and during a time that there was very little English spoken in the Philippines.&nbsp; There are (and were) numerous dialects of Spanish spoken in the islands, depending on which island you were on, zone, etc., but the Japanese Government printed the bills in English.&nbsp; It just strikes me as very unusual even though it was a US territory. Dad&#039;s outfit (863rd Army Engr Btn - USAAF / 5th Air Force -- builders of Clark Air Base) had a young (then) boy that did their interpreting for them.&nbsp; He was learning English in school but also spoke several dialects of &#039;Philippino&#039;.&nbsp; That young boy survived the war, and went into the US Navy (E-8) for 20 years (using our address as his US home).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to steal the thread here.&nbsp; Camaro&#039;s grandfather went through hell to bring these home, as did my dad and all our troops in the islands.&nbsp; I just find it interesting, having been there myself and having been stationed in Japan....&nbsp; It is one of those unanswered mysteries of the war.&nbsp; I was in hopes that somebody here might know the answer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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