Operation Freedom small poster 224b: ship in Ha Long Bay (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong Tu-Do' (Operation Freedom) shows a large grey ship with hull number 212 moored against a hilly shoreline. The caption says it is one of the American ships waiting in Ha Long Bay to carry evacuees to the South. The tell is card-stacking: the sheet shows only the ship and the offer of passage, and omits any reason for leaving or any other side of the choice.
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
- Warn or inform
- 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 6949137, 306-PPB-224b).
Text on the object
TÁC ĐỘNG TỰ-DO Đây một trong những tầu Mỹ đậu tại vịnh Hạ-long đợi chở đồng-bào tản-cư vào miền Nam
Operation Freedom. Here is one of the American ships anchored in Ha Long Bay, waiting to carry compatriot evacuees to the South.
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.
