This is a very similar image to the one which appears on that Philadelphia card that followed our card from earlier this week, as it shows Eisenhower speaking to the airborne forces before they leave. However this card was not issued until 1992.
Now British collectors may be surprised to read that this set was issued for the fiftieth anniversary of World War II, because fifty years before 1992 is 1942. The solution is that America did not join in with World War II officially until after Pearl Harbour in December 1941. That would make 1942 the first year of their war.
These cards were issued in packs of ten cards, and a sales box contained thirty six packets. They are not so easy to scan though, because they have a very high gloss finish, so apologies for slight blurring.
Now this company was founded in 1980, by a man who was a really big baseball collector, and they soon had a great reputation for making high quality cards. They also have two real claims to fame - firstly they actually invented the three by three plastic sheet format, that those of us who have not adopted slabbing use to keep our gum cards in. And secondly, in 1999, they made the first ever card of Tom Brady.
They also diversified into making "bobblehead" figures, though the principle was invented by the Chinese about two thousand years earlier. I am not sure if they had the rights though, because they are made by Funko - unless Pacific only had the rights to the baseball ones and those rather unkind TV spin-off ones that I see so many of were exempt from this.
Such a promising start, but they lost their NFL license in 2003 and by the end of the following year all they had in their stable was hockey, just in time for the strike action. The owner decided to retire, and he sold stock and goodwill to Playoff Corp in 2004. And Playoff is now allied to Donruss.
You can see a checklist of all the cards at The Trading Card Database/PacificWW2 - from which you can see the set is split into groups, starting with aircraft, and moving into people from cards 17 to 54 - there is also a second card of President Eisenhower as card 26. The rest of the set shows the major events, but, at the end, cards 95 to 110 should be noted, for they are small reproductions of original wartime posters.