Reward Presented to Tran My, A Returnee, During a Chieu Hoi Meeting Held in II Corps at Phu Yen

A portrait sheet of five photographs shows a rallier named Tran-My receiving cash, gifts, a framed certificate and a furnished house at a Chieu Hoi congress in Phu Yen. Captions give the sums, 45,000 and over 200,000 piastres, and credit him with guiding Korean troops to kill 17 enemy soldiers and seize a machine gun, two AK-47s and eight rifles. The tell is the itemised reward for a named individual: the material payoff, set beside his battlefield record, is the argument.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial Card stacking

Date: 1965
Period: Cold War
Made by: Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
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
Themes: War and the military, Economy and finance
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
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-3-3085.

Text on the object

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

HỒI-CHÁNH VIÊN TRẦN-MỸ ĐƯỢC ÂN THƯỞNG TRONG NGÀY ĐẠI-HỘI CHIÊU-HỒI VÙNG II CHIẾN-THUẬT TẠI PHÚ-YÊN .

Ông Tổng-Trưởng Chiêu-Hồi trao tặng 45.000$ cùng nhiều tặng vật cho Hồi-chánh viên Trần-Mỹ .

Đại Tá Tỉnh Trưởng Phú-Yên trao nhiều tặng vật cho các Hồi-chánh viên đã lập nhiều thành tích .

Hồi-chánh viên Trần-Mỹ, sau khi Hồi-chánh đã hướng dẫn quân đội Đại-Hàn hành quân hạ sát 17 Cộng quân, tịch thu 1 Trung liên Trung Cộng, 2AK 47 và 8 súng trường.

Quang cảnh Đại-Hội Chiêu-Hồi Vùng II CT và ân thưởng các Hồi-chánh viên đã lập nhiều thành tích xuất sắc tại Đông-Tác, Tuy-Hoà.

Hồi-chánh viên Trần-Mỹ còn được Đại-Tá Tư-Lệnh Trung-Đoàn 28 Bạch-Mã Đại Hàn thưởng riêng cho 1 ngôi nhà với đầy đủ tiện nghi, trị giá trên 200.000$.

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[In photograph: banner] Đại-Hội Chiêu-Hồi Vùng II CT ... TẠI PHÚ-YÊN

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

RALLIER TRẦN-MỸ AWARDED ON THE DAY OF THE CHIEU HOI CONGRESS OF II CORPS TACTICAL ZONE AT PHU-YEN.

The Minister of Chieu Hoi presents 45,000$ and many gifts to the rallier Trần-Mỹ.

The Colonel, Province Chief of Phu-Yen, presents many gifts to the ralliers who have achieved many results.

The rallier Trần-Mỹ, after rallying, guided Korean troops on an operation that killed 17 Communist troops and seized 1 Chinese Communist light machine gun, 2 AK-47s and 8 rifles.

Scene of the Chieu Hoi Congress of II Corps Tactical Zone and the rewarding of ralliers with outstanding achievements at Đông-Tác, Tuy-Hoà.

The rallier Trần-Mỹ was also given a separate reward by the Colonel commanding the 28th Regiment, Korean 'White Horse' [division], of a fully furnished house worth over 200,000$.

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[In photograph: banner] Chieu Hoi Congress of II Corps Tactical Zone ... AT PHU-YEN