Pictorial Review, Volume II, Number 1: arrival of US T-33 jets at Debre Zeit (Amharic-English poster distributed in Addis Ababa)
A bilingual Amharic-English picture-sheet on the arrival of three US T-33 jet trainers at the Haile Selassie I Air Force Training Center, Debre Zeit. Photographs show the aircraft on the apron, a US colonel congratulating a pilot, US and Ethiopian officers and an official standing together, and Ethiopian cadets talking with a US captain. The text quotes an Ethiopian general calling the delivery 'a milestone'. The tell is testimonial: an Ethiopian officer's praise of the US-supplied jets is quoted.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 6, 1959
- 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 6, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948751, 306-PPB-14f).
Text on the object
ስዕላዊ፡ መጽሔት። PICTORIAL REVIEW Volume II Number 1 Ethiopia, in the words of Brigadier General Assefa Ayene, Deputy Commander of the I.E.A.F., has reached "a milestone in the development of our Air Force" with the arrival of three United States jet airplanes at the Haile Selassie I Air Force Training Center in Debre Zeit. The jets -- 1958 model T-33's--came off the California assembly line, were sent by ship to Italy, and then flown directly to Ethiopia. The jet aircraft were provided under the United States Military Assistance program for Ethiopia. These pictures show the arrival of the U. S. jets at Debre Zeit. The three T-33's are shown following their arrival at Debre Zeit. Col. Howe congratulates Major Howard W. Newmeyer following the arrival of the first T-33 jet planes at Debre Zeit. Mr. Wagner is at right. Standing before one of the new T-33's are, left to right, Col. Charles P. Howe, Chief, MAAG; Brigadier General Assefa Ayene, Deputy Commander, IEAF; His Excellency Tshafi Teezaz Tafarra Worq Kidane Wold, Minister of the Imperial Palace; General K. Lindahl, Commander, IEAF; Major Howard W. Newmeyer, Captain Whitcomb C. Jones and Captain Edward W. Dosch, all U. S. Air Force pilots who delivered the jets; Joseph J. Wagner, Counselor of the American Embassy, and Col. Robert L. Ramsey, Chief of the MAAG Air Force Section. Brigadier General Assefa Ayene, left, formally accepts the first three T-33 jet aircraft at Debre Zeit. Others left to right, are His Excellency Tshafi Teezaz Tafarra Worq Kidane Wold, General K. Lindahl, Commandant, IEAF, and Mr. Joseph J. Wagner. Captain Jones, right, talks to a group of Ethiopian Air Force cadets and officers.
Masthead Amharic 'ስዕላዊ መጽሔት' reads, literally, 'Pictorial Magazine'; the English text is as printed.
Amharic body text and captions (parallel to the English) are not transcribed; only the Amharic masthead is.
