Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 4: A trainee learning to fire a Bren gun (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A close photograph of a man in a bush hat lying prone and aiming a Bren light machine gun, with blurred figures seated behind him. The Jawi-script Malay caption says a trainee is learning to shoot with a Bren gun. The tell is card-stacking: the sheet presents military training as a plain, orderly activity and says nothing of the purposes or costs of the forces it promotes.
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
- Persuade or win support
- 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 5730016, 306-PPA-115).
Text on the object
تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" ڤاسوقكن٢ برسنجات ڤرسكتوان سأورڠ ڤلاتيه سدڠ بلاجر منيمبق دڠن برينكن [4]
Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation A trainee is learning to shoot with a Bren gun. [4]
Jawi script, read from the image; header reads 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'.
