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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 471974, member: 6986&quot;]In addition to being used as &quot;spearhead currency&quot;, the yellow seal notes were used for soldiers in transit either within the ETO or stateside.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the ETO all US personnel received their monthly pay in the local currency.&nbsp; If they had orders stateside or to be transferred out of theater they had to convert their local currency to yellow seals.&nbsp; If they went stateside, they could spend the money.&nbsp; If they went to another country, they had to convert the yellow seal notes to the currency of the new country.</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife&#039;s grandfather still had the yellow seal notes he received when he shipped home at the end of the war.&nbsp; Unfortunately, they went to another member of the family when he passed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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