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title: 'Korea Exhibit poster No. 2d: survivor''s account (Thai, Bangkok)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-exhibit-2d-manring-testimony-thai-bangkok-1954/
description: A Thai-language exhibit sheet. A man in a light suit points to a photograph of a ravine beneath a map marked Kaesong. (1 of 2)
section: Collection
---

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# Korea Exhibit poster No. 2d: survivor's account (Thai, Bangkok)

A Thai-language exhibit sheet. A man in a light suit points to a photograph of a ravine beneath a map marked Kaesong, Panmunjom and Seoul along the 38th parallel; the caption names him as a 21-year-old former United Nations soldier pointing to the ravine full of his comrades' bodies from which he survived. Overlapping pages of typed Thai statements fill the rest of the sheet. The tell is testimonial: a named survivor and typed documents are offered as proof.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
นายร้อย แมนริง อายุ ๒๑ ปี และเคยเป็นทหารในกองทัพสหประชาชาติ ชี้จุดในแผนแสดงถึงเหว
ที่เต็มไปด้วยศพของพวกเพื่อน ๆ เขาและที่เขารอดตายมาได้

[background collage of typed Thai statement pages; not transcribed]
```

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

```
Lieutenant [นายร้อย] Manring [as transliterated from the Thai], aged 21 and formerly a soldier in the United Nations army, points to a spot on the plan showing the ravine full of the corpses of his friends, from which he survived.

[background collage of typed Thai statement pages; not transcribed]
```

Only the printed caption is transcribed; the background pages are dense typed text, not transcribed.

[← Korea Exhibit poster No. 2c: weapon and casualty photos (Thai, Bangkok)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-exhibit-2c-soviet-weapon-and-dead-soldier-thai-bangkok-1954/) [Korea Exhibit poster No. 2e: survivor's account (Thai, Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-exhibit-2e-manring-testimony-copy-thai-bangkok-1954/)

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