Re: FWD: Paul Tibbits, pilot of "Enola Gay", dead at 92

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 23:23:28 -0500, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hmm, never heard of that one.

....I have, although it's been about 25 years since I'd heard the
lecture on some of the plans the Japs had for causing sabotage and
chaos. Apparently they were of seriously good quality with regards to
the forgeries, although they suffered from the same problem that
plagues counterfeiters today - the paper. The Japs apparently did get
ahold of some of the blank stock used by the US Mint, but not enough
to produce enough bills to do more than provide about $2500.00 USD in
$20.00 bills, circa 1943, which IIRC is when they managed to finally
nab the paper.

I have seen examples of US printed dollar with HAWAII marks on them in the
event Hawaii was invaded.

....Same here, and I've met one numistatist who owned *two* of them in
proof condition, sealed.

OM
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