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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 202612, member: 669&quot;]Average or not, I went through one in Korea in the summer of 1954 and another one in Japan in early 1955.&nbsp; That&#039;s the time I was one of the great minority of servicemen out on the town in Tokyo, because they cancelled the old MPC, but didn&#039;t issue the new currency until the next morning.&nbsp; I had already exchanged some MPC for yen before the changeover, so I had money to spend in town that evening.&nbsp; Without any valid MPC, the USO service clubs, NCO clubs, and - I assume - the O clubs as well, were all closed. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s generally true, but a GI with more than a limit I don&#039;t recall had to establish where it came from.&nbsp; I knew more than one who was denied exchange of part of his stash when he couldn&#039;t prove that he hadn&#039;t bought up paper from the locals. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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