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1 Cent Davis-Monthan PoW Camp
| Issuer | Davis-Monthan Army Air Field Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Printed by letterpress in blue on yellow paper, the obverse carries the bold principal inscription PRISONER OF WAR above a banner reading CAMP CANTEEN, with the camp location Davis-Monthan, Ariz. set below in smaller type. A boxed denomination panel at the right bears the numeral 1 over CENT in blue. A serial number appears in red ink in the lower central field, consistent with the utilitarian production standards of wartime canteen scrip. |
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| Obverse lettering | PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CANTEEN Davis-Monthan, Ariz. 1 CENT |
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Davis-Monthan Army Air Field, outside Tucson, held Axis prisoners — primarily German and Italian — under the Geneva Convention framework that required the U.S. to provide canteen access for PoW labor earnings. These scrip issues were the mechanism: prisoners received pay for their work but in currency unusable outside the wire, preventing any utility if they escaped or smuggled it out.
The Tucson area camps were among the more extensive in the Southwest, drawing on wartime agricultural labor demand. Camp-issued scrip at this denomination is genuinely scarce; most was redeemed and destroyed at war's end per standard demobilization procedure.