Operation Freedom small poster 224d: sailor and orange (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong Tu-Do' (Operation Freedom) shows a crouching American sailor handing an orange to a small barefoot boy while a woman and other children look on, smiling. The caption says the sailors are very fond of children. The tell is plain folks: a warm everyday gesture between an ordinary sailor and a child is offered as the character of the whole operation.
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 6949139, 306-PPB-224d).
Text on the object
TÁC ĐỘNG TỰ-DO Thủy-thủ trên tầu Mỹ rất mến yêu các em nhỏ. Trên đây, một thủy-thủ Mỹ tặng em nhỏ di-cư một trái cam
Operation Freedom. The sailors on the American ships are very fond of children. Above, an American sailor gives an evacuee child an orange.
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.
