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Bowman Gum Company Fight the Red Menace: The Children's Crusade against Communism trading cards; 40. Frontier Patrol

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09627.40 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, "40. Frontier Patrol" depicting Norwegian soldiers on skis along a border. Reverse side contains propaganda narrative describing the Atlantic Pact as an agreement by which "free nations" provide aid against attacks by enemy nations. Text gives an instance of Norway, a country on the border of Russia, as a peaceful nation that will engage in war if necessary.

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