Aust Banknotes - War Related Issues
Lot 4218 SESSION 15 (7.30PM THURSDAY 19TH APRIL) Aust Banknotes - War Related Issues
Estimate $150
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SOLD $110
MIDWAY ISLAND, U.S. base, WWII, R & R Center beer ration chit 2, Good For One Beer. Some smudging along top edge, otherwise extremely fine and rare.
Midway Island is a small atoll in the North Pacific Ocean one-third of the way between Honolulu and Tokyo and was the location of a U.S. base during WWII. A massive sea battle was fought at Midway during WWII and the resultant crushing defeat of the Japanese Navy by the US Navy was a turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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