Recruiting poster Nos. 1 and 2, 164QD2 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A Vietnamese military-service poster. A modern infantryman in helmet and pack, rifle in hand, strides forward while a thought bubble above him holds four historical battle scenes of armoured horsemen and fallen enemy soldiers, and a fifth scene shows bodies among stakes in water. The couplet links living free to doing military service. The tell is transfer: past national victories are attached to present conscription.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 19, 1964
- 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
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam 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, October 19, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949296, 306-PPB-371).
Text on the object
Anh ơi muốn sống tự do Thi hành quân dịch chúng ta diệt thù 164QD2
Brother, if you want to live free, carry out military service: we destroy the enemy. [Code:] 164QD2
The line may be read as a couplet in which carrying out military service is the means of destroying the enemy.
