Content note: Line drawing of a wrecked truck and a dead driver after an air attack. This object is shown as it was published. Why
行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese
A Chinese-language leaflet for Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers in Korea. The front is a line drawing of a wrecked truck and a dead driver under strafing aircraft, headed 'Moving military vehicles are the target of Allied bombing'; the back says dozens of vehicles and their drivers are destroyed every day, that the soldiers' position is 'hopeless day by day', and tells them to join 'the thousands of comrades' who have already crossed over and are safe and well treated. Staged harm to the reader's own unit, then a crowd of those who have already switched, is the tell for both tags.
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S.-led United Nations Command psychological warfare, Korea (leaflet names 'the United Nations air force' but no issuing office)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- Fear appealBandwagon
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan via a collector's website), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. military/federal work; Commons PD-USGov-Military tag)
U.S. military psychological warfare leaflet, Korean War. The Commons file page cites a U.S. federal-employee-work tag; the scan is from a private collector site, and no archive record is cited.
Text on the object
[front] 行駛的軍車是聯軍轟炸的目標 8526 [back] 行駛的軍車是好目標 行駛的軍車是好目標，每天有幾十輛軍車連同駕駛兵被聯軍毀滅。 聯合國空軍深入你們的後方，阻止你們糧食和軍火向前方輸送。 你們的情況是一天天的無望了。這就是你們應該投誠的理由之一。向你們已經過來的成千成萬的同志們看齊吧！他們在這裏不但生命安全，而且享受優待。 8526
[front] Moving military vehicles are the target of Allied bombing 8526 [back] Moving military vehicles are good targets Moving military vehicles are good targets. Every day dozens of military vehicles, together with their drivers, are destroyed by Allied forces. The United Nations air force penetrates deep into your rear and stops your food and ammunition from being carried to the front. Your situation is hopeless day by day. This is one of the reasons you should surrender. Follow the example of the thousands upon thousands of comrades who have already come over to us. Here they are not only safe in life but also enjoy good treatment. 8526
Front and back both read from the Commons scans; only the front is hosted. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
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