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title: 'The Common Struggle: But Soldiers Do More Than Fight...'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-common-struggle-but-soldiers-do-more-than-fight-1965-1969/
description: A green page headed 'BUT soldiers do more than fight...' says soldiers 'build roads, repair bridges, treat the ill, provide for refugees'.
section: Collection
---

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[![The Common Struggle: But Soldiers Do More Than Fight..., 1965 US poster: A green page headed 'BUT soldiers do more than](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-common-struggle-but-soldiers-do-more-than-fight-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-common-struggle-but-soldiers-do-more-than-fight-1965-1969.jpg)

# The Common Struggle: But Soldiers Do More Than Fight...

A green page headed 'BUT soldiers do more than fight...' says soldiers 'build roads, repair bridges, treat the ill, provide for refugees'. Two photographs show Republic of Korea troops grading and clearing a road near Di An and New Zealand Army engineers repairing a bridge over the Thu Dau Mot River. The tell is the contrast set up by 'BUT' against an unstated preceding page of fighting, with only construction work pictured for the allied forces.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
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BUT soldiers do more than fight...

They build roads, repair bridges, treat the ill, provide for refugees.

Republic of Korea troops around Di An build and improve roads, one of the keys to the economic development of South Vietnam.

New Zealand Army engineers help repair bridge over Thu Dau Mot River, north of Saigon.
```

[← The Benefits R.D. Can Bring (Lợi ích do Chương trình Xây dựng Nông thôn)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-benefits-rd-can-bring-1965-1969/) [The Common Struggle: Nations of the Far East Help South Vietnam Repel Communist Aggression →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-common-struggle-far-east-nations-1965-1969/)

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