Bạn hãy gia-nhập Quân-đội Việt-Nam (You, join the Vietnamese Army) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #2)

A uniformed soldier in a beret, with a rifle and fixed bayonet, stands before a large red 'BẠN' (you). The text urges the viewer to join the Vietnamese Army to defend the territory against 'communist terrorism'. The tell is name-calling joined to a virtue frame: the opponent is labelled terrorist while enlistment is framed as defence of the territory.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Name-callingGlittering generalities

Date

March 26, 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

Theme

War and the military

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, 26 March 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730141, 306-PPA-240).

BẠN

HÃY GIA-NHẬP
QUÂN-ĐỘI VIỆT-NAM

ĐE BAO-VỆ LÃNH-THỔ
CHỐNG
CỘNG-SẢN KHỦNG-BỐ

YOU

JOIN
THE VIETNAMESE ARMY

TO DEFEND THE TERRITORY
AGAINST
COMMUNIST TERRORISM