Ba Canh Hamlet: Women Carry Stones to Build Ditches, 1965 US poster: A Vietnamese-language sheet tells how Ba Canh hamlet, 15

Ba Canh Hamlet: Women Carry Stones to Build Ditches

A Vietnamese-language sheet tells how Ba Canh hamlet, 15 kilometres from Qui Nhon and described as 'dead' to both government and Viet Cong control until 1965, was helped by a 59-member government Rural Construction team over twelve weeks. A photograph of three women in conical hats carrying stones for an irrigation project illustrates it. A before-and-after account with named local officials and ordinary labourers gives the government's presence a concrete, local face.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
1965
Period
Cold War
Made by
South Vietnamese government (Republic of Vietnam) civic-action material in the JUSPAO-era poster series; no issuing body printed on the sheet
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Home front, War and the military
Event
Vietnam War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
South Vietnamese government (Republic of Vietnam) civic-action material in the JUSPAO-era poster series. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-34.

Text on the object

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

Ấp Bá Canh cách Qui Nhơn 15 cây số. Cho đến năm 1965 ấp Bá Canh như là một ấp chết không có sự kiểm soát của Chính Phủ cũng như của Việt cộng. Cách đây một vài tháng Phó Tỉnh trưởng, Thiếu tá Nguyễn Văn Bê, yêu cầu sự trợ giúp cho ấp Bá Canh. Sự giúp đã được xúc tiến bằng một đoàn 59 người cán bộ Xây Dựng Nông Thôn do Chính phủ gửi đến. Họ đến làm việc với đồng bào Ấp Bá Canh trong một thời gian 12 tuần lễ. Đây là những hình ảnh ấp Bá Canh đang được hồi sinh với sự giúp đỡ của Chính phủ.

Các phụ nữ gánh đá để đắp mương cho dự án đưa nước vào ruộng.

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

Ba Canh hamlet is 15 kilometres from Qui Nhon. Until 1965 Ba Canh hamlet was like a dead hamlet, with no control by the Government nor by the Viet Cong. A few months ago the Deputy Province Chief, Major Nguyen Van Be, requested assistance for Ba Canh hamlet. The assistance was carried out by a team of 59 Rural Construction cadres sent by the Government. They came to work with the people of Ba Canh hamlet for a period of 12 weeks. These are pictures of Ba Canh hamlet being revived with the Government's help.

The women carry stones to build embankments for the project bringing water into the fields.