Thanh Binh District, Kien Phong Province, Engages in Rural Reconstruction
Sheet SP-1251 lists what Thanh Binh district (Kien Phong) has done: 94 new and 62 repaired school rooms, 5 new maternity homes and 11 dispensaries, 3 new markets and 1 repaired, new concrete and iron-frame bridges, electricity in 4 villages and water systems at 3 sites. Photographs show a bridge, a school, a clinic and the Tan Hung market, and the foot reads 'Resolved to destroy the Communists in order to build the country'. The tell: a tally of completed works, a selective list, stands in for the district's overall condition.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government (sheet carries no issuing office)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, 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
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government (sheet carries no issuing office). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-1251.
Text on the object
QUẬN THANH-BÌNH (KIẾN-PHONG) VỚI CÔNG-TÁC XÂY DỰNG NÔNG-THÔN SONG SONG VỚI CÁC CUỘC HÀNH QUÂN TIÊU TRỪ CỘNG-PHỈ ĐỂ ĐEM LẠI AN-NINH CHO ĐỒNG BÀO, NHÂN DÂN THANH-BÌNH CÒN LƯU TÂM VỀ CÔNG-TÁC XÃ-HỘI, XÂY DỰNG NÔNG-THÔN, KIẾN THIẾT XỨ SỞ. CÂY CẦU NÀY ĐÃ ĐƯỢC THỰC HIỆN THEO CHƯƠNG-TRÌNH XÂY-DỰNG NÔNG-THÔN. MỘT NGÔI TRƯỜNG ĐÃ HOÀN THÀNH TRONG CHƯƠNG-TRÌNH PHÁT TRIỂN NÔNG-THÔN. MỘT TIỂU BỆNH XÁ ĐƯỢC XÂY CẤT ĐỂ GIÚP ĐỠ ĐỒNG-BÀO ĐAU YẾU TRONG QUẬN. CHỢ TÂN-HƯNG ĐÃ ĐƯỢC HOÀN THÀNH ĐEM LẠI LỢI ÍCH CHO DÂN CHÚNG. ĐÃ THỰC HIỆN TRƯỜNG HỌC: XÂY CẤT MỚI 94 PHÒNG TU BỔ 62 PHÒNG NHÀ BẢO SANH, TRẠM Y-TẾ: XÂY CẤT MỚI 5 CÁI TRẠM Y-TẾ 11 TRẠM CHỢ: XÂY CẤT MỚI 3 CÁI TU BỔ 1 CẦU, ĐIỆN, NƯỚC: BẮC MỚI BẰNG CIMENT CỐT SẮT: 52 CÁI ĐIỆN HÓA: 4 XÃ HỆ THỐNG NƯỚC: 3 ĐỊA ĐIỂM CƯƠNG-QUYẾT DIỆT CỘNG ĐỂ KIẾN THIẾT XỨ SỞ SP-1251 [Signs in photographs:] CHỢ TÂN-HƯNG 1965; TIỂU BỆNH-XÁ, AN-LONG, HỘ-SINH LIÊN XÃ THANH-BÌNH
THANH BINH DISTRICT (KIEN PHONG) AND ITS RURAL CONSTRUCTION WORK Alongside the operations to wipe out the Communist bandits in order to bring security to the compatriots, the people of Thanh Binh also pay attention to social work, rural construction and building the country. This bridge was built under the rural construction programme. A school completed under the rural development programme. A dispensary built to help sick and weak compatriots in the district. Tan Hung market has been completed, bringing benefit to the people. ACCOMPLISHED SCHOOLS: New construction 94 rooms Repaired 62 rooms MATERNITY HOMES, DISPENSARIES: New construction 5 Dispensaries 11 MARKETS: New construction 3 Repaired 1 BRIDGES, ELECTRICITY, WATER: New reinforced-concrete bridges: 52 Electrified: 4 villages Water systems: 3 locations RESOLVED TO DESTROY THE COMMUNISTS IN ORDER TO BUILD THE COUNTRY SP-1251 [Signs in photographs:] TAN HUNG MARKET 1965; DISPENSARY, AN-LONG, THANH-BINH INTER-VILLAGE MATERNITY
Translation by FRAME from the Vietnamese text on the poster, literal and machine-assisted, not checked by a fluent reader; the claims are the poster's own and FRAME has not checked them against other records. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. The bridge line is read as 'new reinforced-concrete bridges: 52'; the image shows 'BẮC MỚI BẰNG CIMENT / CỐT SẮT: 52 CÁI', where 'BẮC' is printed for 'cầu' or 'bắc', so the exact word is uncertain.
