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1 Cent Fort George; PoW Camp
| Issuer | U.S. Army - Fort George G. Meade Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1942-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CANTEEN FT. GEORGE G. MEADE, MD. NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 1 CENT |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on red paper, the reverse is dominated by a central stamp-style vignette enclosing the numeral 1 within a guilloche border, with CENT inscribed in a panel below. The letters P/W appear to the left and D to the right of the central device, serving as abbreviations for Prisoner of War and the denomination marker. |
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Fort George G. Meade held German and Italian prisoners of war during the Second World War, and like dozens of U.S. Army installations operating POW camps under the Geneva Convention, it issued internal canteen scrip to prevent prisoners from accumulating U.S. currency — a straightforward security measure, since American bills could theoretically fund escape attempts or black-market activity outside the wire.
The red paper distinguishes this denomination within the camp's scrip hierarchy. Campbell 8075 is among the less-documented stateside POW issues; survival rates for these notes are genuinely uneven, as most were officially destroyed or simply discarded when the camps closed in 1945–46 and prisoners were repatriated.