Operation Freedom small poster 224a: medical care aboard ship (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong Tu-Do' (Operation Freedom) shows a uniformed American officer working on a patient's hand while an elderly Vietnamese man stands behind him. The caption says the American ships sailing south have full medical facilities. The tell is plain folks: a single close, everyday scene of care stands in for the whole sea passage.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 26, 1954
- 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
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Migration
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 26, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949136, 306-PPB-224a).
Text on the object
TÁC ĐỘNG TỰ-DO Trên tầu Mỹ xuôi Nam đầy đủ tiện-nghi y-tế
Operation Freedom. On the American ships going south there are full medical facilities.
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.
