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4 Annas 468th Bombardment Group
| Issuer | 468th Bombardment Group, Officers Bar |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground printed in red letterpress throughout. The issuer name "468 BOMB GROUP" and "OFFICERS BAR" appear at the top in bold capitals, with the denomination "As. 4." printed in a large central typeface flanked on both sides by the year date "1944". |
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| Obverse lettering | 468 BOMB GROUP OFFICERS BAR 1944 As. 4. 1944 |
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The 468th Bombardment Group was a B-29 Superfortress unit stationed at Kharagpur, India, as part of the XX Bomber Command during the early strategic bombing campaign against Japan. Officers' messes and bars on remote forward bases frequently issued their own scrip to manage credit and liquor rations — official currency was too valuable, too scarce, and too easily drained from the post by visiting personnel or theft.
The anna denomination places this firmly within the British Indian monetary system then in local use. Four annas equaled one quarter rupee — a practical price point for a drink.