Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 3: A patrol of the Armoured Corps (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of armoured cars moving in file along a jungle track, with a crewman aiming a weapon from the leading vehicle. The Jawi-script Malay caption says this is a patrol of the Armoured Corps. The sheet gives no place, date or purpose for the patrol. The tell is card-stacking: only the security force's readiness is shown, with no context on the operation it belongs to.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 3, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730015, 306-PPA-114).
Text on the object
تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" فاسوقكن٢ برسنجات فرسكتوان ساتو ڤيترول درڤد فاسوقكن برڤريسي [3]
Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation A patrol of the Armoured Corps [3]
Jawi script, read from the image; orthography of the last word is uncertain. Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'.
