Big Picture: Thailand

National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569828 / Local Identifier 111-TV-616 Big Picture: Thailand DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). The country we once knew as Siam is known today as Thailand--land of the free. It's history is one of unbroken centuries of independence. It has a tradition of freedom which the United States is helping to preserve through military assistance and broadening avenues of public health, transportation, and communications.