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title: 'Air Rescue Service poster No. 4: Lifeline in Disaster (English, Manila)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/air-rescue-service-poster-4-lifeline-in-disaster-manila-1958/
description: 'A yellow sheet with a drawing of airmen loading a stretcher into an aircraft and five captioned photographs: a search briefing for the missing Presidential'
section: Collection
---

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[![Air Rescue Service poster No. 4: Lifeline in Disaster, 1958 US poster: A yellow sheet with a drawing of airmen loading](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/air-rescue-service-poster-4-lifeline-in-disaster-manila-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/air-rescue-service-poster-4-lifeline-in-disaster-manila-1958.jpg)

# Air Rescue Service poster No. 4: Lifeline in Disaster (English, Manila)

A yellow sheet with a drawing of airmen loading a stretcher into an aircraft and five captioned photographs: a search briefing for the missing Presidential aircraft, Filipino and American helicopter pilots, a U.S. Air Force helicopter at Mount Manungal, an airlift of a Mindoro patient and a pilot in the sea. The text says Filipino and American rescue teams work together 'so that others may live'. The tell is card-stacking: only cooperative rescue scenes are shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AIR RESCUE SERVICE-- THE LIFELINE IN DISASTER

Whenever disaster strikes, Filipino and American rescue teams work together in mercy missions so that others may live.

PROGRESS CHART--PAF officer and Clark Air Base pilots orient reporters on search coverage of planes assigned to locate missing Presidential aircraft.

PRE-FLIGHT BRIEFING--Filipino and American helicopter rescue pilots plot search operation procedure before taking off on mercy mission.

JUNGLE SEARCH -- Atop Mount Manungal wilderness, one of the U.S.A.F. helicopter rescue teams prepares to land to search for President's plane on foot.

COORDINATION -- U.S. Airforce and Navy rescue services alert ocean-going vessels and planes within a wide radius to extend help to an injured pilot forced to bail out of a disabled jet plane.

EMERGENCY AIRLIFT -- A critically-ill Mindoro patient rushed to Manila by U.S. air rescue plane is immediately taken into a waiting ambulance.

MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE (emblem)
PHIL AIR
RESCUE 1028
```

Words on aircraft and emblem included as read.

[← Portrait of the Emerald Buddha poster (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/emerald-buddha-portrait-poster-thai-bangkok-1958/) [Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 47: Earthquake relief (Farsi, Tehran) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pishraft-e-iran-wall-news-poster-47-earthquake-relief-farsi-tehran-1958/)

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