Sacrifice for Your Country poster (Khmer poster distributed in Saigon)
A blue, green and orange Khmer-language poster. A hat-wearing soldier in green fatigues crosses a flooded paddy with an automatic weapon, mouth open as if shouting, while four more soldiers wade behind him toward hills. Two lines of stylised Khmer lettering fill the sky. NARA titles it 'Sacrifice for Your Country'. The tell is glittering-generalities: sacrifice and country are the whole appeal, carried by the heroic soldier image.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 1, 1954
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold 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, July 1, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949081, 306-PPB-174).
Text on the object
[illegible: two lines of stylised Khmer display lettering in the sky]
Not read from the image. NARA's title for the sheet is "Sacrifice for Your Country".
The headline is in decorative angular lettering and was not transcribed; no other text is printed on the sheet.
