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title: 'Operation Freedom small poster 224e: child and chopsticks (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/operation-freedom-small-poster-224e-child-and-chopsticks-vietnamese-saigon-1954/
description: A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong Tu-Do' (Operation Freedom) shows American sailors serving food from a tray to a crowd of Vietnamese
section: Collection
---

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[![Operation Freedom small poster 224e: child and chopsticks, 1954 US poster: A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/operation-freedom-small-poster-224e-child-and-chopsticks-vietnamese-saigon-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/operation-freedom-small-poster-224e-child-and-chopsticks-vietnamese-saigon-1954.jpg)

# Operation Freedom small poster 224e: child and chopsticks (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)

A halftone photograph under the headline 'Tac Dong Tu-Do' (Operation Freedom) shows American sailors serving food from a tray to a crowd of Vietnamese children and adults. The caption says a child is showing a sailor how to hold chopsticks and that the sailors care for the children on ships carrying evacuees south. The tell is plain folks: an everyday meal-serving scene stands for the character of the whole operation.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
TÁC ĐỘNG TỰ-DO
Một em bé chỉ cách cầm đũa cho một thủy-thủ Mỹ.
Thủy-thủ Mỹ tận tâm săn sóc các em nhỏ trên những tầu
chở đồng-bào tản-cư vào miền Nam
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Operation Freedom. A small child shows an American sailor how to hold chopsticks. American sailors devotedly look after the little ones on the ships carrying compatriots evacuating to the South.
```

No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.

[← Operation Freedom small poster 224d: sailor and orange (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/operation-freedom-small-poster-224d-sailor-and-orange-vietnamese-saigon-1954/) [Korea Exhibit poster No. 2a: UN resolution text (Thai, distributed in Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-exhibit-2a-un-resolution-pow-atrocities-thai-bangkok-1954/)

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