5 Cents Kilmer PoW Camp

Camp Kilmer, near New Brunswick, New Jersey, functioned primarily as a processing and staging facility for troops moving in and out of the European theater — it was not a dedicated prisoner of war camp in the conventional sense, though it did hold Axis prisoners toward the war's end. The Exchange scrip issued there was part of the broader U.S. Army program that replaced hard currency in PoW canteens, preventing German prisoners from accumulating coin that could aid escape attempts or be hoarded for post-war use.

The 1945–46 dating window suggests this note straddled the armistice period, when prisoner repatriation was already underway — making the scrip's operational lifespan unusually short even by PoW canteen standards.