Dong Binh Bridge: Connecting
A yellow page with two captions and one photograph of villagers, children and a woman carrying baskets near a new wooden footbridge. The captions say a student is helping two soldiers build a bridge, that student and soldier alike were volunteers recruited by the district chief, and that a weak old bridge has been replaced to join the two parts of Dong Binh hamlet. The tell is the pairing of soldiers, students and villagers in one cooperative scene.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-44.
Text on the object
Một sinh viên (trái) đang giúp đỡ hai anh quân nhân bắt cầu. Sinh viên và quân nhân đều là những người tình nguyện do ông Quận trưởng tuyển mộ để xây cất chiếc cầu mới. Chiếc cầu củ yếu ớt nguy hiểm đã được thay thế bằng chiếc cầu mới để nối liền hai phần đất của ấp Đông Bình. 4
A student (left) is helping two soldiers lay the bridge. The student and the soldiers are all volunteers recruited by the District Chief to build the new bridge. The old, weak and dangerous bridge has been replaced by a new bridge to connect the two parts of the land of Dong Binh hamlet. 4
