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
- 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 6949140, 306-PPB-224e).
Text on the object
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
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.
