Operation Brotherhood poster, sheet 3 of 4 (English poster distributed in Manila)
Sheet 3 of the Operation Brotherhood set: photographs of a doctor examining an elderly patient, a surgical team, a nurse giving a vitamin injection at a refugee camp in Bien Hoa, and a crowd watching an improvised show. Captions say the shows were staged by JC social workers to raise civilian morale. The tell is transfer: clinical and humanitarian imagery is attached to the project.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 14, 1955
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East 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
- Health, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 14, 1955. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949056, 306-PPB-158c).
Text on the object
OPERATION BROTHERHOOD Thousands of sick and impoverished civilians are examined and treated at JC-operated hospitals and clinics. Medical team operates on victim of breast tumor at one of several JC hospitals operated in Free Vietnam. To raise the morale of civilians in this troubled area, shows are improvised by JC social workers. In improvised camps, such as this one in Bien Hoa, thousands of refugees receive vitamin injections. JCI 3
Part of a banner in the background photograph is partly legible Vietnamese and is not transcribed.
