Anh Phú tòng quân (Brother Phú joins the army) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #5)
A smiling young man in a beret and army shirt has three women's hands resting on his shoulders and waving behind him. The headline names him 'Anh Phú' (Brother Phú) and the lettering below says he joins the army. The tell is plain-folks and bandwagon: an ordinary named recruit is shown cheered by women, so that enlisting looks like the socially approved choice.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 20, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- First Indochina War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, 20 March 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730144, 306-PPA-243).
Text on the object
ANH PHÚ TÒNG QUÂN
BROTHER PHÚ JOINS THE ARMY
The last word is printed in stylised lettering; diacritics read as 'TÒNG QUÂN' with some uncertainty. Machine-assisted translation, not verified by a fluent reader.
