World's Veteran's Day, 26th June 1955 (English poster distributed in Asia)
A poster for World's Veteran's Day, 26 June 1955. A drawn figure of a uniformed corporal with a decoration and an arm patch sits in a wheelchair, with a larger grey shadow of the chair behind him, and the slogan reads 'let's lend a hand!'. The tell is transfer: the standing of a wounded serviceman is attached to a request for help, with no organisation, fund or place named on the sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 16, 1955
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- 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, June 16, 1955. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730170, 306-PPA-269).
Text on the object
World's Veteran's Day 26th JUNE 1955 ... let's lend a hand! [mark:] PAO
