Employees at an airplane plant in a United States East Coast State paste money on the fuselage of a fighter plane, just off the assembly line. They and thousands of other workers at the plant contributed 5,256 dollars to the U.S. Navy Relief Society because a penny was found by an electric installer on the floor near the plane. The finder pasted the penny on the side of the plane as a good luck token for the pilot. The idea spread through the plant and the money flowed in, in coins and bills of all denominations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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96Employees at an airplane plant in a United States East Coast State paste money on the fuselage of a fighter plane, just off the assembly line. They and thousands of other workers at the plant contributed 5,256 dollars to the U.S. Navy Relief Society because a penny was found by an electric installer on the floor near the plane. The finder pasted the penny on the side of the plane as a good luck token for the pilot. The idea spread through the plant and the money flowed in, in coins and bills of all denominations. Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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