Go Back to Your Families
A colour illustrated poster shows a Viet Cong fighter in black clothes, barefoot, a rifle and helmet dropped at his feet, looking up at a mother and two children who float in front of the yellow and red-striped South Vietnamese flag, while leaflets fall around him. The slogan says 'Return to the great national family, to the national cause, to live in freedom.' The appeal fuses family, nation and the Saigon flag into one 'family' to which the fighter is told to return.
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
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-3-3096.
Text on the object
CÁC BẠN HÃY TRỞ VỀ VỚI ĐẠI GIA-ĐÌNH DÂN-TỘC, VỚI CHÍNH NGHĨA QUỐC-GIA ĐỂ ĐƯỢC SỐNG TỰ-DO
YOU, COMRADES, RETURN TO THE GREAT NATIONAL FAMILY, TO THE NATIONAL CAUSE, TO BE ABLE TO LIVE IN FREEDOM
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at the image resolution.
