Army Slogans poster 221c, banana verse (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A Vietnamese-language slogan sheet in green letterpress type on buff paper, two lines of verse and no picture, from a four-sheet set titled Army Slogans. It urges men to carry out military service (quan dich). The tell is bandwagon: the couplet promises peer approval for those who serve and implies ridicule for those who do not, which is a bandwagon appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 5, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 5, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949131, 306-PPB-221c).
Text on the object
Gió đưa bụi chuối sau hè Thi hành quân dịch bạn bè hết chê
The wind sways the banana clump behind the house; carry out military service and your friends stop teasing you.
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.
