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10 Cents US Forces Sweetwater
| Issuer | Avenger Field Officers' Association |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | AVENGER FIELD OFFICERS' ASSN. Sweetwater A.F.S. Texas NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 10 CENTS |
| Reverse description | Plain buff paper, unprinted, with a pattern of punch cancellation holes visible at upper left, consistent with used booklet detachment. |
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Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas was the sole training base for the Women Airforce Service Pilots — the WASP program — and this scrip was issued by the Officers' Association to circulate within that closed military installation. Wartime base currency of this kind kept spending on-post and away from local civilian economies, particularly useful in a small West Texas town with limited commercial infrastructure.
WASP-associated material from Avenger Field is historically thin on the ground. Most base scrip was destroyed or discarded at program's end when the WASP were abruptly disbanded in December 1943 — before the war itself was over.