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Beer ration chit Midway Island
| Issuer | R & R Center Midway |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on plain cream paper. The central text panel carries the issuer and redemption legends, flanked top and bottom by decorative rope-and-ring border rules; two small seabird vignettes appear at left. A large numeral '2' is printed in bold red at the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | R & R Center Midway BEER RATION CHIT Good For One Beer 2 |
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Midway Island hosted a U.S. Naval Station that remained active well after the famous 1942 battle, and small scrip items like this beer ration chit were a practical solution to controlling alcohol consumption among stationed personnel — not an officially sanctioned currency, but a tightly managed internal voucher system. The R&R Center designation suggests this dates from the postwar period when Midway functioned as a rest and recreation stop for Pacific Fleet sailors.
Printed locally on-island, the production quality on these chits is typically rough. Survival rate is low — they were disposable by design, redeemed and discarded the same evening they were issued.