Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 5: A newly joined soldier at Taiping practising with the bayonet (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of a shirtless recruit in a bush hat lunging with a bayonetted rifle at a hanging sack on a wooden frame while a uniformed instructor looks on. The Tamil caption says a newly joined soldier in Taiping is practising bayonet work. The tell is plain-folks: an ordinary recruit at routine drill presents army life as everyday and approachable.
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, 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 5730007, 306-PPA-106).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை தைப்பிங்கில் புதிதாய்ச் சேர்ந்த சிப்பாய் ஒருவர் சனியலை குத்திப் பழகுகிறார். [5]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army A newly joined soldier in Taiping practises thrusting with the bayonet. [5]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'. The word rendered 'bayonet' in the translation is printed 'சனியலை' and was read from the image; its sense is taken from the context of the photograph.
