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
- 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
- Recruit
- 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 6949295, 306-PPB-370).
Text on the object
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
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.
