Content note: An illustration of a burning village and a bleeding child's arm gripped alongside a rifle held by a hammer-and-sickle sleeve, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
26 Countries Around the World Aid South Vietnam
A split-panel illustrated poster. On the left, hands hold a bowl of rice beside sacks banded in the South Vietnamese flag, with foreign-flagged ships behind, under text that 26 free countries are aiding the Republic of Vietnam. On the right, a hammer-and-sickle sleeve grips a rifle over burning houses and a child's arm marked 'Cong Phi' (Communist bandits), under text blaming 'Red China' and the Front for the war. Aid and ruin are shown as the two sides of one choice.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-6-264.
Text on the object
26 QUỐC GIA TRÊN THẾ GIỚI TỰ DO ĐANG VIỆN TRỢ CHO CHÁNH PHỦ VIỆT NAM CỘNG HÒA ĐỂ NÂNG CAO ĐỜI SỐNG ĐỒNG BÀO CỘNG PHỈ TRUNG CỘNG ỦNG HỘ BẮC VIỆT VÀ CÁI MẶT TRẬN GỌI LÀ GIẢI PHÓNG MIỀN NAM BẰNG VŨ KHÍ ĐẠN DƯỢC TUYÊN TRUYỀN ĐỂ GÂY CHIẾN TRANH TÀN KHỐC Ở MIỀN NAM PHÁ HOẠI ĐỜI SỐNG AN LÀNH CỦA DÂN CHÚNG VÀ GIẾT HẠI NGƯỜI VÔ TỘI Nhà In Thông Tin — Saigon
26 COUNTRIES IN THE FREE WORLD ARE AIDING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM TO RAISE THE LIVING STANDARD OF OUR COMPATRIOTS COMMUNIST BANDITS RED CHINA SUPPORTS NORTH VIETNAM AND THE FRONT CALLED 'LIBERATION OF THE SOUTH' WITH WEAPONS, AMMUNITION AND PROPAGANDA TO CAUSE A CRUEL WAR IN THE SOUTH, DESTROYING THE PEACEFUL LIFE OF THE PEOPLE AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE Information Printing House - Saigon
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at the image resolution.
