Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 4: Learning to use the Bren gun (Chinese photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A close photograph of a soldier in a bush hat lying behind a Bren light machine gun, aiming it. The Chinese caption reads 'Learning to use the Bren gun'. The sheet gives no argument beyond showing weapons training. The tell is card-stacking, used lightly: the set shows training and equipment and nothing else about the forces' work.
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 (NAID 1767935), 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 5730026, 306-PPA-125).
Text on the object
今日之馬來亞 畫片'D'套 聯合邦武裝部隊 學習使用布朗槍 [4]
Today's Malaya Picture Set 'D' Federation Armed Forces Learning to use the Bren gun. [4]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set D, Federation Armed Forces'.
