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25 Cents Bunker Hill Air Force Base
| Issuer | Officers' Open Mess, Bunker Hill Air Force Base |
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| Year | 1954-1968 |
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| Composition | Paper (blue) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on blue paper; a rectangular border frame encloses the issuer's name and location in three lines at upper left, with the caution legend "NOT GOOD IF DETACHED" in italic at lower left. A bold boxed panel at right carries the denomination "25 CENTS". Serial number printed in red at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted blue paper; perforated edges visible on all four sides, consistent with booklet or stub separation. |
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Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana operated under Strategic Air Command for most of its active life, housing B-58 Hustler crews at various points during the Cold War. Officers' club scrip of this kind was a common feature of mid-century American military installations — a closed monetary system that kept spending on base and simplified accounting within the mess. The blue paper composition is characteristic of the denomination tier used across many SAC installations, where color-coding by value was a practical necessity rather than an aesthetic choice.
Bunker Hill was decommissioned in 1968, which sets the hard upper boundary on this scrip's useful life. Notes surviving from the early years of the series are considerably scarcer than later issues.