I remember seeing somewhere on this site of a world war 2 victory deck or something like that. I have not been able to find it again. But it was one I was wanting badly.
You might have been referring to the "Victory Series" decks from "the Great War," what we now know as World War I. They're probably the rarest of all Bicycle decks ever made. The idea was to make them as morale boosters for the war, and there was a deck for each branch of the military - the Army deck was "Big Gun" (Robinson's #15), the Navy deck was "Dreadnaught" (Robinson's #26), the Army Air Corps deck was "Flying Ace" (Robinson's #30; the Army Air Corps was the predecessor to the Air Force) and the Marine Corps deck was "Invincible" (Robinson's #32).
What made these decks so rare was that USPC didn't get around to printing and releasing them until 1918, and the war ended about a half-year later. Production was discontinued, making all four the shortest runs of a USPC-ordered Bicycle deck not intended to be a limited edition. A complete set, still sealed, is exceptionally rare and can go for thousands of dollars.
Those are some really, REALLY nice-looking cards. It's a shame that USPC completely screwed the pooch when they released the "Big Gun" reprint decks recently. They did such good work making an authentic-looking box and copying the card backs - but then they used the exact same faces from a modern Bicycle deck, right down to the jokers and Ace of Spades, and worse, stuck a huge price tag on them. It was a form of poetic justice to see this deck, formerly sold at as much as $50 a pair, no singles, go on clearance at Wingra Direct for 99 cents a pack!
If they hadn't botched this and really did the deck true justice by giving it authentic period faces (and more down-to-earth prices), we could be looking at all four decks being reproduced and resold today. As it stands, the odds are slim-to-nil unless a private company takes the job on.
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