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title: Recruiting poster Nos. 3 and 4, J64QD1 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/recruiting-poster-nos-3-4-j64qd1-vietnamese-saigon-1964/
description: A Vietnamese recruiting poster for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Recruiting poster Nos. 3 and 4, J64QD1 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)

A Vietnamese recruiting poster for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. A large question mark filled with small drawings (a medic examining a soldier, a family-quarters gate, a school, a man receiving pay and mail) rises behind a profile head, and a circle shows a soldier embracing his wife and child. The text asks what the reader still fears before joining. The tell is plain-folks and glittering-generalities: army life is shown as medical care, housing, schooling and family.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
BẠN
CÒN NGẦN
NGẠI GÌ

MÀ KHÔNG
GIA NHẬP
QUÂN ĐỘI
VIỆT NAM
CỘNG HÒA

TRẠI GIA BINH

Q.Đ.V.N.C.H TRƯỜNG

J64QD1
```

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

```
YOU, WHAT ARE YOU STILL HESITATING OVER, THAT YOU DO NOT JOIN THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM. [Signs inside the drawings:] Dependents' quarters; [Army of the Republic of Vietnam] school. [Code:] J64QD1
```

Sign text inside the small drawings is partly cut off in the picture.

[← Recruiting poster Nos. 1 and 2, 164QD2 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/recruiting-poster-nos-1-2-164qd2-vietnamese-saigon-1964/) [Advertising Free World magazine poster (Korean poster distributed in Seoul) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/advertising-free-world-korean-seoul-1964/)

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