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5 Cents Kilmer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Camp Kilmer Prisoner of War Camp Canteen |
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| Year | 1945-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper with dark green letterpress printing throughout. The left portion carries the canteen number '1' in large numerals beneath the principal legend, with the camp designation centered below. A red serial number appears in the lower center field. To the right, a bordered panel displays the denomination in large numerals with the unit inscription, and the void notice is printed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, showing only the plain pink paper stock with no printing or markings of any kind. |
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Camp Kilmer, located near New Brunswick, New Jersey, functioned primarily as a staging area for troops deploying to and returning from Europe — but it also held German and Italian prisoners of war, who were permitted to earn wages for labor and spend them only within the camp canteen system. The scrip was deliberately non-convertible to U.S. currency, satisfying Geneva Convention requirements while preventing any accumulated funds from being used in escape attempts.
Pink paper was used to distinguish this denomination from others in the series at a glance — a practical measure when canteen clerks were processing high volumes of transactions quickly. The camp closed in 1949, and most PoW scrip was destroyed or discarded at repatriation, which accounts for its relative scarcity today.