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WWII Navy Department Tobacco Rationing Card, Issued to 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer, USMC — Quantico, Virginia

WWII Navy Department Tobacco Rationing Card, Issued to 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer, USMC — Quantico, Virginia

A WWII Navy Department tobacco rationing card issued to 1st Lieutenant Edward P. McAleer at Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, valid through October 1945. Even military personnel were subject to consumer rationing during the war; cards like this, with their punch-out purchase grid, controlled how much tobacco a serviceman could buy per period, illustrating the reach of wartime scarcity into everyday military life. Project: 218326