Returnees Reunited with Family (Tay Ninh Chieu Hoi Sheet)
A landscape sheet (code SP-1443) shows passport-style photographs of 39 men, each captioned with a name, nickname, rank or post and unit, around a central panel reading 'Those who have returned to be reunited with their families'. The panel asks readers with relatives or friends still in the Viet Cong ranks to call on them to return to the 'national cause'. A wall of named faces serves as both testimonial and a count of those who have rallied.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Chieu Hoi programme sheet issued under the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing series for the South Vietnamese government, Tay Ninh province
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- 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), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Chieu Hoi programme sheet issued under the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing series for the South Vietnamese government, Tay Ninh province. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-3-1443.
Text on the object
NẾU ĐỒNG BÀO CÓ THÂN QUYỀN HAY BẠN HỮU HIỆN CÒN Ở TRONG HÀNG NGŨ VIỆT CỘNG, HÃY KÊU GỌI HỌ TRỞ VỀ VỚI CHÍNH NGHĨA QUỐC GIA- NHỮNG NGƯỜI NÀY ĐÃ TRỞ VỀ ĐOÀN TỤ VỚI GIA ĐÌNH ĐOÀN-KẾT XÂY-DỰNG MIỀN-NAM TÂY NINH [39 photograph captions giving name, alias, rank or post and unit, e.g. Trung Úy TRƯƠNG QUANG HẢI tự Cao Sơn, Đại Đội Trưởng Đại Đội Thông Tôn C020; NGUYỄN VĂN HƯNG tự Hòa, Trung Đội Trưởng B-1 C.33, Huyện Gò Dầu-Hạ; TRẦN VĂN LẮM, Xã Đội Trưởng Đội Công Đoàn Trà Võ, Bình Linh, Hiếu Thiện; ... NGUYỄN VĂN LẺO, Đội Viên Sản-Xuất Tôn chánh, Bí số: K-612] SP-1443
IF YOU, COMPATRIOTS, HAVE RELATIVES OR FRIENDS STILL IN THE VIET CONG RANKS, CALL ON THEM TO RETURN TO THE NATIONAL CAUSE. THESE PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED TO BE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES UNITY TO BUILD THE SOUTH TAY NINH [The 39 individual photograph captions (name, alias, rank or post, unit) are summarised, not transcribed line by line, in this field's original text; see the image.] SP-1443
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text. Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution; a few marks in small print could not be fully verified.
