This Man Is Your Friend: Chinese. He Fights for Freedom
A photograph of a smiling Chinese Nationalist soldier in a field cap is framed by 'This man is your FRIEND / Chinese / He fights for FREEDOM.' One friendly face and one virtue word introduce an ally to American viewers; the poster says nothing about the government he serves or the war China had been fighting since 1937.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government (Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures; printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; Commons: Public domain, not copyrighted)
Office of Facts and Figures / U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 515793.
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
This man is your FRIEND Chinese He fights for FREEDOM For additional copies write to Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D.C. . . . Specify GPO Jacket No. 435918. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O
A short handwritten-style caption ('Soo' or similar) appears beside the photograph at upper right; it reads as a signature or photo credit rather than running text, is not fully legible, and is not included in originalText.
