--- title: 'The Voice of Bataan: 11th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, 9 April 1953 (English poster distributed in the Philippines)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/voice-of-bataan-9-april-1953-philippines/ description: A Philippine commemoration poster for the 11th anniversary of the fall of Bataan, 9 April 1953. Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The Voice of Bataan: 11th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, 9 April [![The Voice of Bataan: 11th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, 9 April 1953, 1953 US poster: A Philippine commemoration poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/voice-of-bataan-9-april-1953-philippines.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/voice-of-bataan-9-april-1953-philippines.jpg) # The Voice of Bataan: 11th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, 9 April 1953 (English poster distributed in the Philippines) A Philippine commemoration poster for the 11th anniversary of the fall of Bataan, 9 April 1953. A winged figure holding a laurel wreath hovers over a ragged soldier raising a tattered white flag above fallen comrades, beside a poem in the defenders' voice and a 'Defenders, Bataan, Corregidor' badge. The tell is glittering generalities ('unconquerable faith', 'Our defeat is our victory') plus transfer, linking a surrender to a winged Victory. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` THE VOICE OF BATAAN Bataan has fallen. With heads bloody but unbowed, we yielded to the enemy. Besieged on land and blockaded by sea, We have done all that human endurance could bear. What sustained us was a force more than merely physical. It was the force of an unconquerable faith: Something in the soul that is immortal! It is the thought of native land. All the world will testify. Men fighting with an unshakeable faith Are made of something more than flesh; But we are not made of impervious steel. The flesh must yield at last, Endurance must melt away, And the end of the battle must come. Bataan has fallen, But the spirit that made it stand - a beacon to all the world - Cannot fall... Our defeat is our victory. DEFENDERS BATAAN CORREGIDOR 9 APRIL 1953 11th ANNIVERSARY of the FALL OF BATAAN ``` [← 8th National Convention, Philippine Veterans Legion: Economic Democracy (English poster distributed in Manila, Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/8th-national-convention-philippine-veterans-legion-1953/) [Việt-Minh cõng rắn cắn gà nhà (The Viet Minh carry the snake to bite the home chicken) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Army Stops Snake) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-army-stops-snake-vietnamese-1953/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-greenwich-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)