Valley Bandillo, USIS Tuguegarao, No. 6, photo page A-2, 1953 US newspaper page: A page of six captioned news photographs

Valley Bandillo, USIS Tuguegarao, No. 6, photo page A-2 (Tuguegarao, Cagayan, 1953)

A page of six captioned news photographs from the USIS Valley Bandillo newsletter: Vietnamese officer-trainees at Dalat, General Mark Clark with Vietnamese servicewomen, a Thai general with a wounded soldier in Korea, a Philippine labor leader at a U.S.-study-tour factory, and President Eisenhower with his family. The tell is plain-folks and transfer: the president is shown relaxing with grandchildren, and allied armies are presented alongside U.S. commanders.

Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page

Glittering generalities Transfer Plain folks

Date: April 15, 1953
Period: Cold War
Made by: U.S. Information Service (USIS), Tuguegarao, Cagayan, per masthead; USIA Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Newspaper pages
Issuer type: State
Regime: Eisenhower Administration
Leader: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: Cold War
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 15, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730126, 306-PPA-227B).

Text on the object

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

[ghosted show-through of masthead: VALLEY BANDILLO ... TRACTOR TO CAGAYAN]

YOUNG OFFICER-TRAINEES of Vietnam's national army get thorough course at the military academy at Dalat. At left, trainees on the rugged obstacle course. Above, studying a 60mm. mortar.

GENERAL MARK CLARK, UN commander in Korea, inspects women of the Vietnamese armed forces during a visit to Vietnam.

A THAI GENERAL, one of military mission visiting Thai troops with UN forces in Korea, stops to talk to a wounded soldier at a forward aid station.

PHILIPPINE LABOR leader Cipriano Malonzo, left, visits big factory on trip to study U. S. labor.

THE CAMERA FINDS President Eisenhower and his family, even grandchildren, in a moment of relaxation.

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[handwritten:] 306-PPA-227 B