South Vietnam: With the Help of Friendly Nations, South Vietnamese Soldiers Are Fighting and Winning
An English-language sheet headed 'South Vietnam' shows a helmeted South Vietnamese soldier in portrait, a large blurred action photograph of a soldier wading and aiming a submachine gun, and a group of soldiers displaying a captured flag and weapons. The text says that with the help of friendly nations South Vietnamese soldiers are 'fighting and winning this war against the Viet Cong'. The tell is the 'winning' claim carried by the images of action and captured material.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), per the National Archives series (no imprint printed on the sheet)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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), per the National Archives series (no imprint printed on the sheet). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-22.
Text on the object
6 SOUTH VIETNAM With the help of friendly nations, South Vietnamese soldiers are fighting and winning this war against the Viet Cong. Government troops display captured Viet Cong flag and weapons.
