Operation Freedom small poster 224c: food for evacuees (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong Tu-Do' (Operation Freedom) shows American sailors in white caps ladling food from trays and tubs to a crowd of Vietnamese, including women and children. The caption says the ships have ample food and that the sailors are glad to help. The tell is card-stacking: only the plenty and the sailors' goodwill are shown, in a sheet meant to ease the reader's worries about the journey.
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 6949138, 306-PPB-224c).
Text on the object
TÁC ĐỘNG TỰ-DO Các tầu Mỹ chở đồng-bào tản-cư đều có đầy đủ lương-thực. Thủy-thủ Mỹ rất vui sướng được giúp đỡ các bạn Việt-Nam lúc này
Operation Freedom. The American ships carrying compatriot evacuees all have ample food. The American sailors are very happy to be able to help their Vietnamese friends at this time.
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.
