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WWII Allies in Action
(R11)
W. H. Brady Company, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
Series Title: Allies in Action
American Card Catalog No.: R11
Manufactured by: W. H. Brady Company, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Country: United States
Number of Cards: 140
Numbering (Series 1):
Circa: early World War II
Checklist: Download
Background
The 140-card Allies in Action
series (R11) is actually a continuation of the 70-card Commando Ranger
series (R34). The Commando Ranger
series was numbered CR-1 to CR-70. The first 70-card printing of the Allies in Action
series picked up the card numbering sequence with AA-71 through AA-140. The second printing of the Allies in Action
series contains only 35 cards and is numbered sequentially from AA-141 through AA-175. The cards were issued in strips of seven cards per strip. Therefore, a full set, including both series contained a total of 15 strips with 7 cards per strip.
The fronts of the cards are divided into five separate panels. The left and right side panels are either red or blue with seven white V’s (V for Victory) stacked on top of each other. The top center panel contains to the set title ALLIES IN ACTION. The center panel features a color drawing of a wartime event. The subjects of the cards depict a serialized story that is partially told on each card, and then continued on the next card. Examples are shown below. The bottom center panel contains the title of the card.
The reverse sides of the cards are an entirely different story. At first we thought that there was only one printing sequence. In reality, we found a total of six different card back variations. There are two major categories: (1) PICTOCARD and (2) PICTOGRAM cards. Each category has at least three different printing variations and each variations appears to come in both tan and grey back versions.
Card Variants
Variant 1
Variant 2
Variant 3
Variant 4
Variant 5
Variant 6
Image-Guide
Second Printing Series (Cards AA-141 to AA-175)
Partial Checklist
| First Printing Series | ||
|---|---|---|
| AA-71 | Flying Fortress Knocks Nazis | |
| AA-72 | Plane Torpedo Buckles U-Boat | |
| AA-73 | Combat Planes Punish Jap Navy | |
| AA-74 | Gun Crew Defends Battle Station | |
| AA-75 | Losing Y-Gun Ash-Can | |
| AA-76 | Frontline Repair Depot | |
| AA-77 | Havocs Hammer Hitler’s Harbors | |
| AA-78 | Another Jap Joins Davy Jones | |
| AA-79 | Swift Sea and Air Action | |
| AA-80 | Sub Bombs Axis Oil Dumps | |
| AA-81 | Axis Atrocities Will Be Avenged | |
| AA-82 | Beating off Axis Air Attack | |
| AA-83 | Allied Airmen Tear Tanks Apart | |
| AA-84 | Allied (sic) Navy’s Rule the Waves | |
| AA-85 | U.S. Army Air Corps Insignia | |
| AA-86 | Loading Jeeps on Carrier Plane | |
| AA-87 | Combat Troops Make Glider Landing | |
| AA-88 | Yanks Boarding Troop Transport | |
| AA-89 | Armorers Loading Bomb Bay | |
| AA-90 | Air Warfare Analysis | |
| AA-91 | Torpedo Plane Combat Procedure | |
| AA-92 | British Spitfire Dominates Dogfight | |
| AA-93 | Navy Fighters in Formation | |
| AA-94 | Big British Bombers Pound Enemy | |
| AA-95 | Russian Bombers Plaster Objectives | |
| AA-96 | Air Corps Attacks Axis Landings | |
| AA-97 | A.A. Searchlight Pins Nazi Planes | |
| AA-98 | Jeep Towing Field Gun | |
| AA-99 | Merchant Marine in Convoy | |
| AA-100 | Axis Ship Going Under | |
| AA-101 | The Sun Sets for Tojo’s Nips | |
| AA-102 | Railway Gun Defends Coast | |
| AA-103 | Flying Tigers Taking Off | |
| AA-104 | Dropping Flares on Axis Targets | |
| AA-105 | Trench Mortar Blasting Axis | |
| AA-106 | Tragedy Alive Tuolon Harbor | |
| AA-107 | Air Minesweeper Detonates Mines | |
| AA-108 | Death of a Deadly Jap Sniper | |
| AA-109 | Fast Catapult Take Off | |
| AA-110 | Sighting Jap Destroyer | |
| AA-111 | Dive Bomber Closing In | |
| AA-112 | Torpedo Away To A Hit | |
| AA-113 | Charge of Operations | |
| AA-114 | Zooming Away Victorious | |
| AA-115 | Forward Into Battle | |
| AA-116 | Into the Thick of It | |
| AA-117 | Hot Reception in Aleutians | |
| AA-118 | Bombing Jap Troop Transports | |
| AA-119 | Side Gun Riddles Fighters | |
| AA-120 | Back To Base Alive | |
| AA-121 | Mechanical Ears Scout Action | |
| AA-122 | Extensive Landing Operations | |
| AA-123 | The End of Men and Machines | |
| AA-124 | Barrage Balloon Protection | |
| AA-125 | Half-Tracks Repel Air Assault | |
| AA-126 | PT Boat Attacks Shore Batteries | |
| AA-127 | Pushing thru Steaming Jungles | |
| AA-128 | The End of the Terrible Trail | |
| AA-129 | Warhawks Swoop into the Fray | |
| AA-130 | Midnight Moonlight Massacre | |
| AA-131 | Trolling for Metal Monsters | |
| AA-132 | Bolts from the Blue | |
| AA-133 | Sky Troops Consolidate for Combat | |
| AA-134 | Scout Plane Warns Supply Column | |
| AA-135 | Beach Head Break-Through | |
| AA-136 | Field Dressing Station | |
| AA-137 | Scratch One Flat Top | |
| AA-138 | U.S. Army Air Corps Insignia | |
| AA-139 | Hard Hitting Hudsons | |
| AA-140 | Lockheed Lightning Lashes Foe | |
| Second Printing Series | ||
| AA-141 | Flying Fortress Features | |
| AA-142 | Latest Lancaster Features | |
| AA-143 | Protection Flight Formation | |
| AA-144 | Howitzers Hammer Hirohitons | |
| AA-145 | Antisubmarine Net Protection | |
| AA-146 | U.S. Coast Guard Gunnery | |
| AA-147 | Supply Column on Pontoon Bridge | |
| AA-148 | Stormoviks Stop Blitz Buggies | |
| AA-149 | Air Blitzing Axis Air Base | |
| AA-150 | U.S. Bombers over Tokyo | |
| AA-151 | Sappers Probe for Land Mines | |
| AA-152 | U.S. Army Air Ambulance | |
| AA-153 | Cargo Vessel Shipyard | |
| AA-154 | Spitfire Bags Big Bad Wulf | |
| AA-155 | Scout Cars Entering Combat Zone | |
| AA-156 | Winning the Battle of Production | |
| AA-157 | U.S. Navy Special Corps Insignia | |
| AA-158 | U.S. Navy Special Corps Insignia | |
| AA-159 | Subtracting Zeros in Arctic Waste | |
| AA-160 | Along the Alcan Highway | |
| AA-161 | Blasting the Brutes of Berlin | |
| AA-162 | Trapped Jap Landing Party | |
| AA-163 | Down in Treacherous Coral Sea | |
| AA-164 | Death to Attacking Shark | |
| AA-165 | Friendly Plane to the Rescue | |
| AA-166 | Salvos from North Carolina | |
| AA-167 | Boom Net Tender Boxwood | |
| AA-168 | U.S. Navy’s F4U-2 Corsair | |
| AA-169 | Eagles of the Fleet Swoop Home | |
| AA-170 | Winged Commando Warbirds | |
| AA-171 | Airacobra Winged Bullets | |
| AA-172 | Terror Strikes Toto’s Termites | |
| AA-173 | Jap Pillbox Pulverized | |
| AA-174 | Bringing Up Combat Troops | |
| AA-175 | Wildcats Dive on Nakajimas | |
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