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title: 'Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cambodian-army-vs-communists-3-khmer-1952/
description: A Khmer-language photo sheet on yellow stock with a red Khmer headline and a boxed paragraph of text. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3, 1952 US poster: A Khmer-language photo sheet on yellow stock with a red Khmer headline](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cambodian-army-vs-communists-3-khmer-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cambodian-army-vs-communists-3-khmer-1952.jpg)

# Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)

A Khmer-language photo sheet on yellow stock with a red Khmer headline and a boxed paragraph of text. Six captioned photographs show a man in a white uniform and embroidered cap leaning to a young man, a flag presentation to soldiers, troops marching with a flag before a palace building, a column of soldiers, an armoured car and a ceremony before a pavilion. The tell is transfer: royal and state ceremony is attached to the army.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[Khmer-script headline, six photo captions and a boxed paragraph of about four paragraphs; not legibly transcribable from the available image scan - [illegible]]
```

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

```
Headline per NARA's English title: 'Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3'. The Khmer captions and body paragraph are not translated.
```

Khmer script is small in the scan; text is left unrendered rather than guessed.

[← Cambodian Army vs. Communists, no. 2 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cambodian-army-vs-communists-2-khmer-1952/) [Germ Warfare: Ang mga Komunista Nadakpan sa Binutig (Communists Caught in a Lie) (Hiligaynon poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/germ-warfare-hiligaynon-1952/)

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