Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 4: Bren gun firing practice (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A close photograph of a soldier in a bush hat lying behind a Bren light machine gun, aiming it, with other soldiers blurred behind him. The Tamil caption reads 'Practising firing with the Bren gun'. The sheet carries no argument beyond showing weapons training. The tell is card-stacking, used lightly: the set shows the forces' training and equipment and nothing else about their 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, 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 5730006, 306-PPA-105).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை பிரன் துப்பாக்கியால் சுடப்பழகுதல் [4]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army Practising shooting with the Bren gun. [4]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'.
