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

TestimonialTransfer

Date

August 30, 1954

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Warn or inform

Theme

War and the military

Event

Korean War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, 30 August 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949017, 306-PPB-142d).

นายร้อย แมนริง อายุ ๒๑ ปี และเคยเป็นทหารในกองทัพสหประชาชาติ ชี้จุดในแผนแสดงถึงเหว
ที่เต็มไปด้วยศพของพวกเพื่อน ๆ เขาและที่เขารอดตายมาได้

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

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]