Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 5: Soldiers practising with the bayonet (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of a shirtless soldier in a bush hat lunging with a rifle at a hanging sack on a wooden frame, while a uniformed man looks on. The Jawi-script Malay caption says the soldiers are practising the use of the bayonet. The tell is card-stacking: training is shown as drill on a sack target, with nothing said of what the forces are used for.
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 5730017, 306-PPA-116).
Text on the object
تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" ڤاسوقكن٢ برسنجات ڤرسكتوان عسكر٢ اين سدڠ برلاتيه مڠݢوناكن سڠكور [5]
Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation These soldiers are practising using the bayonet. [5]
Jawi script, read from the image; header reads 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'. The final caption word is read here as 'sangkur' (bayonet); its Jawi spelling is the least certain part of the reading.
