Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 5: Recruits at Taiping receiving bayonet training (Chinese photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of a shirtless soldier lunging with a rifle and bayonet at a hanging sack on a wooden frame while another soldier looks on. The Chinese caption says new recruits trained at Taiping are receiving bayonet training. The sheet gives no argument beyond showing the drill. 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 5730027, 306-PPA-126).
Text on the object
今日之馬來亞 畫片'D'套 聯合邦武裝部隊 太平所訓的新兵,在受刺刀訓練. [5]
Today's Malaya Picture Set 'D' Federation Armed Forces The new soldiers trained at Taiping are receiving bayonet training. [5]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set D, Federation Armed Forces'.
