Chieu Hoi Village, Resettlement Centre of the Hoi Chanh, 1965 US poster: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer Chieu Hoi poster

Chieu Hoi Village, Resettlement Centre of the Hoi Chanh

A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer Chieu Hoi poster (code SP-2097) shows five photographs of former Viet Cong ralliers making concrete blocks, digging foundations and building twin-unit houses at a Chieu Hoi village in Vinh-Binh province, ending with two rallier families standing outside a finished house. The captions give measurements and say two families have already moved in. The tell is a selection of ordinary building work and smiling families offered as the whole picture of life after rallying.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
1965
Period
Cold War
Made by
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Mixed
Purpose
Reassure
Themes
War and the military, Home front
Event
Vietnam War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-3-2097.

Text on the object

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

LÀNG CHIÊU-HỒI NƠI ĐỊNH-CƯ CỦA NGƯỜI HỒI-CHÁNH
[Khmer text]

ANH EM HỒI-CHÁNH THAM-GIA CÔNG TÁC THIẾT LẬP LÀNG CHIÊU-HỒI TẠI ẤP BẾN-CỎ, XÓM-TRẮNG THUỘC XÃ NGUYỆT-HÓA QUẬN CHÂU-THÀNH (VĨNH-BÌNH) ĐANG XÚC ĐẤT ĐẮP NỀN ĐỂ XÂY CẤT NHÀ Ở CỦA MÌNH.
[Khmer text]

NGƯỜI HỒI-CHÁNH ĐANG IN GẠCH BLOC ĐỂ DÙNG XÂY CẤT NHÀ Ở TẠI LÀNG CHIÊU-HỒI HIỆN ĐANG THIẾT LẬP.
[Khmer text]

ANH EM HỒI-CHÁNH ĐANG THỰC HIỆN VIỆC XÂY CẤT MỘT CĂN NHÀ.
[Khmer text]

HỒI-CHÁNH PHẠM-HỮU-THẠCH ĐANG THỰC-HIỆN CÔNG-TÁC XÂY CẤT MỘT CĂN NHÀ KIỂU SONG-LẬP, CỘT ĐÚC, LỢP TOLE, NỀN TRÁNG XI MĂNG, VÁCH GẠCH, MỖI CĂN SONG-LẬP RỘNG 8 THƯỚC VÀ 7 THƯỚC 2 TẤC.
[Khmer text]

NHÀ XÂY CẤT XONG ĐÃ CÓ 2 GIA-ĐÌNH NGƯỜI HỒI-CHÁNH ĐỊNH-CƯ VÀO Ở NGAY.
TRÊN ĐÂY LÀ GIA-ĐÌNH CỦA HỒI-CHÁNH PHẠM-HỮU-THẠCH (mặt) VÀ GIA-ĐÌNH CỦA HỒI-CHÁNH LÊ-VĂN-BỐN (trái).
[Khmer text]

SP-2097

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

CHIEU-HOI VILLAGE, RESETTLEMENT PLACE OF THE HOI-CHANH
[Khmer version of the title, not translated]

The Hoi-Chanh brothers take part in setting up the Chieu-Hoi village at Ben-Co hamlet, Xom-Trang, Nguyet-Hoa village, Chau-Thanh district (Vinh-Binh), shovelling earth to raise the foundations for their own homes.

A Hoi-Chanh is moulding concrete blocks to build houses in the Chieu-Hoi village now being set up.

The Hoi-Chanh brothers are building a house.

Hoi-Chanh Pham-Huu-Thach is building a twin-unit house, with cast columns, a corrugated-metal roof, cement-finished floor and brick walls; each unit is 8 metres by 7 metres 2 tac [about 7.2 m, as printed].

The finished house already has 2 Hoi-Chanh families settled in. Above are the family of Hoi-Chanh Pham-Huu-Thach (right) and the family of Hoi-Chanh Le-Van-Bon (left).

SP-2097

Khmer-script lines beneath each Vietnamese caption are not transcribed. In the last caption 'mặt' and 'trái' are printed as 'right/face' and 'left'; rendered 'right' and 'left'. The dimension '8 thước và 7 thước 2 tấc' is printed in traditional units and kept as printed.