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5 Cents Aiea Naval Barracks
| Issuer | Aiea Naval Barracks, Ships Service Dept. |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Value | 5 Cents (0.05 USD) |
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| Obverse lettering | AIEA NAVAL BARRACKS SHIPS SERVICE DEPT. PEARL HARBOR, T. H. |
| Reverse description | Orange ground with black letterpress print. A bold large-format numeral '5¢' occupies the centre, flanked by the legends 'GOOD FOR' above left and right and 'IN TRADE' below. Vertical serial numbers appear in narrow side panels at both left and right margins. The printer's union imprint runs along the bottom edge. |
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Aiea Naval Barracks occupied a former plantation hospital above Pearl Harbor, converted to a naval facility after the December 1941 attack. The Ships Service Department issued these small-denomination chits to control on-base spending — a standard wartime measure used across Pacific installations to prevent currency from reaching civilian markets or enemy hands if personnel were captured or killed in the field.
Globe Ticket Co. of Los Angeles printed the series, the same firm that produced transit tokens and carnival tickets. The orange tinting was a color-coding convention, not a security feature.