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title: Vietnam Fights and Builds, No. 1 (July 1964), cover
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vietnam-fights-and-builds-no1-cover-1964/
description: The colour cover of the first issue of an English-language government magazine shows three soldiers in flower garlands on a camouflaged armoured…
section: Collection
---

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# Vietnam Fights and Builds, No. 1 (July 1964), cover

The colour cover of the first issue of an English-language government magazine shows three soldiers in flower garlands on a camouflaged armoured personnel carrier, reaching down to a small child held up by a woman in a headscarf, under the title 'Vietnam Fights and Builds'. The tell: garlands, a child and smiling soldiers attach civilian welcome to military hardware, and the title pairs 'fights' with 'builds'.

## Text on the object

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

```
VIETNAM
Fights and Build[illegible]

1
JULY 64
```

The last letter of 'Builds' is cut off at the right edge. A Stanford University Libraries stamp ('STACKS APR 16 1974') and a handwritten call number at upper left are library marks and are omitted.

[← Communist Aggression Against the Republic of Viet-Nam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saigon, July 1964), introduction 'Asia's Final Battle', page 9](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communist-aggression-asias-final-battle-introduction-1964/) [President Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin 'Midnight Address' →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gulf-of-tonkin-address-1964/)

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