# Leaflet 8274: the porter, the cart, and the bomber, in a 1952 Korean leaflet A green, two-sided Korean-language leaflet, number 8274, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army in 1952. The front sets B-29 and jet bombers above a porter with an A-frame and a man with a horse cart. The back calls the contest a tiger against a rabbit. - Home - Archive - Leaflet 8274: the porter, the cart, and the bomber, in a 1952 Korean leaflet 지게나 마차로 B-29와 젯트기에 대항이 되겠는가! (Can A-Frames and Carts Stand Against B-29s and Jets?), leaflet 8274 Leaflet 8274: the porter, the cart, and the bomber, in a 1952 Korean leaflet 1952 UN Command leaflet 8274 in Korean asks whether A-frames and carts can stand against B-29s and jets, and calls the contest a tiger against a rabbit. ## Techniques named on the archive record Fear appeal Date1952Made byUnited Nations Command psychological warfare (U.S. Army), serial 8274; issuer not named on the leafletMediumLeafletCountryUnited StatesRegimeTruman AdministrationSourceUnidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosureSourceNDSU Archives (hosted PDF of Jin K. Kim, 'Themes in Korean War-Era Leaflets'); leaflet held by the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum, Fort Bragg , retrieved October 2, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105: U.S. military leaflet, 1950-53) U.S. Army / UN Command leaflet no. 8274, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum; Figure 3 in Jin K. Kim, 'Themes in Korean War-Era Leaflets' (1993), PDF at NDSU Archives. Only the scan is hosted. Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records. Full record at propagandaarchive.org A green, two-sided Korean-language leaflet, number 8274, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army in 1952. The front sets B-29 and jet bombers above a porter with an A-frame and a man with a horse cart. The back calls the contest a tiger against a rabbit. ## The sheet On the front, bombers fill the sky. Below them a man is bent under a jige, the Korean wooden A-frame carrier, and another leads a horse and cart. The question is printed over the drawing, and the lower margin carries two codes, E-130 and 8274. The reverse has a title and one paragraph. 지게나 마차로 뻬29와 젯트기에 대항이 되겠는가 ! […] 우리는 이십세기 문명시대에 호랑이와 토끼싸움을 구경하고 있다. 지게나 마차로 비행기와 싸우는 것이 그것이다. […] 원시적 방법으로 과학무기에 대항이 되겠는가 ? Front caption and excerpts from the reverse, FRAME transcription. FRAME reads 뻬29 as the Hangul spelling of B-29, first syllable uncertain. Can A-frames and carts stand against B-29s and jet planes? […] In this twentieth-century age of civilisation we are watching a fight between a tiger and a rabbit: fighting aeroplanes with A-frames and carts is just that. […] Can primitive methods stand against scientific weapons? The archive's machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader; FRAME says it cross-read the translation against the paraphrase in the cited paper. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. Between those lines, in FRAME's rendering, the reverse says that however the roads are repaired and however the loads are carried, UN aircraft destroy them on sight, so supply cannot go on. ## Who issued it The leaflet names no issuer. FRAME attributes it to United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army and classes the source as blurred. The original is held by the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum at Fort Bragg. The scan the archive uses is Figure 3 in Jin K. Kim's 1993 paper "Themes in Korean War-Era Leaflets," hosted as a PDF by the NDSU Archives. The rights line records it as a U.S. federal work in the public domain. ## How to read it FRAME tags it fear appeal. The fear it works on is futility. The leaflet does not tell the porter to run; it tells him his labor is pointless, which is a more patient way to wear down a supply line made of human backs. The comparison it draws is plain on its face: a B-29 and jets on one side, a wooden carrying frame on the other. But the leaflet's language is the language of the stronger side admiring its own strength. "Primitive" and "scientific" are not neutral words when the primitive side is the reader's own country. A Korean porter could fairly hear contempt in it as well as warning. There is also a question the sheet leaves aside. It does not say whether the men under those A-frames were soldiers or civilians, or whether they had any choice about carrying the loads. A leaflet that mocks the porter's labor does not ask who made him carry it. The same supply-line theme appears a year earlier in leaflet 8526, aimed at Chinese truck drivers, and farmers are addressed directly in leaflet 1243. See also US and UN Command messaging in the Korean War. ## Sources - FRAME object record, 지게나 마차로 B-29와 젯트기에 대항이 되겠는가! (Can A-Frames and Carts Stand Against B-29s and Jets?), leaflet 8274, 1952. United Nations Command psychological warfare (U.S. Army), serial 8274; issuer not named on the leaflet. - Jin K. Kim, "Themes in Korean War-Era Leaflets" (1993), Figure 3, PDF hosted by NDSU Archives, retrieved by the archive 2 October 2026; leaflet held by the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum, Fort Bragg. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105). Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-8274-cart-vs-b29-1952/