The D-Day Invasion Currency Plan: How Allied Forces Pre-Positioned French Franc Notes to Fund the Normandy Liberation
Before the first soldier hit the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the U.S. Treasury and Allied command had already solved a critical logistical puzzle: how to pay for an army moving across occupied France. The story of the Allied Military Currency francs is one of the most compelling intersections of wartime necessity and numismatic history, producing notes that collectors still hunt today.
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