Capture paper value

Zamo · 12-09-2008, 02:03 PM

I don't know if it would be an indication of a forgery. Let's put this in perspective. How many troops rotated home from the ETO in 1944 versus 1945? The Allies landed in France halfway through 1944, so there's only six months left in '44 to go home, or to send a package home. There probably wasn't a lot of guys "going home" unless they were either a very senior officer doing some stuff back in the states, or were WIA. Compare the numbers of both of those groups with the great exodus of returning GI's of all flavours during 1945, and you can easily see how rare a 1944 marked set of papers would be, yet that doesn't mean they don't, or didn't exist.

12-09-2008, 02:03 PM	#6
Zamo User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Washington State Posts: 142 Thanks: 4 Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts	I don't know if it would be an indication of a forgery. Let's put this in perspective. How many troops rotated home from the ETO in 1944 versus 1945? The Allies landed in France halfway through 1944, so there's only six months left in '44 to go home, or to send a package home. There probably wasn't a lot of guys "going home" unless they were either a very senior officer doing some stuff back in the states, or were WIA. Compare the numbers of both of those groups with the great exodus of returning GI's of all flavours during 1945, and you can easily see how rare a 1944 marked set of papers would be, yet that doesn't mean they don't, or didn't exist. __________________ <INSERT WITTY SAYING HERE> My collection: http://home.comcast.net/~gunspotz/guns.htm