Army Slogans poster 221d, flag verse, 1956 US poster: A Vietnamese-language slogan sheet in brown letterpress type on buff

Army Slogans poster 221d, flag verse (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)

A Vietnamese-language slogan sheet in brown 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 closing question presses the reader to enlist now, and the flag image in the first line links the call to national symbolism.

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
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
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 6949132, 306-PPB-221d).

Text on the object

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

Rung rinh gió thổi ngọn cờ
Không vào quân ngũ còn chờ đợi chi ?

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

The flag tip flutters in the wind; if you do not join the ranks, what are you still waiting for?

No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.