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Bowman Gum Company Fight the Red Menace: The Children's Crusade against Communism trading cards; 10. Lieutenant Russell Brown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09627.10 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, "10. Lieutenant Russell Brown" of a portrait of pilot Lt. Russell Brown climbing into a cockpit, two aircrafts in the background, one falling from an airstrike. Reverse side contains propaganda narrative describing Brown's attack against two MIG-15s near the Manchurian border.

Brown, Russell, fl. 1950-1951

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