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Bowman Gum Company Fight the Red Menace: The Children's Crusade against Communism trading cards; 2. MacArthur Heads UN Forces

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09627.02 Author/Creator: Bowman Gum Company Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Trading card Date: 1951 Pagination: 1 collecting card Height: 6 cm, Width: 8 cm Order a Copy

One trading card from the Red Menace collection, "2. MacArthur Heads UN Forces," consisting of a portrait of General Douglas MacArthur with an ablazed North Korean tank in the background. Reverse side contains a propaganda narrative by which United Nations aiding South Korea is likened to a father who "would help the folks next door if some bad men were beating them up."

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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