1 Anna Air Transport Command

The Army Air Forces Air Transport Command ran a global logistics network across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Pacific — and its Exchange scrip existed to keep that economy internal. The 1 Anna denomination pegs this note specifically to the India-Burma-China theater, where ATC crews were ferrying supplies over the Hump into Nationalist China. Standard Indian currency used annas as fractional units of the rupee, so denominating Exchange scrip in annas was a functional necessity, not an affectation.

These were not legal tender and carried no redemption guarantee outside the command's own exchanges. Accounting for them after the war was notoriously inconsistent.