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title: Cứu giúp một kẻ thù bại trận; Giúp đỡ một người bạn trẻ (Aid for a Fallen Foe; Aid for a Young Friend)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aid-for-a-fallen-foe-aid-for-a-young-friend-poster-1965-1969/
description: 'Two photographs on pink stock: a U.S. medical corpsman carrying a wounded Viet Cong fighter to a helicopter, and a U.S. Marine walking beside a boy'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of a wounded Vietnamese fighter being carried to a helicopter and of a boy with one leg on crutches, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Cứu giúp một kẻ thù bại trận; Giúp đỡ một người bạn trẻ, 1965 US poster: Two photographs on pink stock](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aid-for-a-fallen-foe-aid-for-a-young-friend-poster-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aid-for-a-fallen-foe-aid-for-a-young-friend-poster-1965-1969.jpg)

# Cứu giúp một kẻ thù bại trận; Giúp đỡ một người bạn trẻ (Aid for a Fallen Foe; Aid for a Young Friend)

Two photographs on pink stock: a U.S. medical corpsman carrying a wounded Viet Cong fighter to a helicopter, and a U.S. Marine walking beside a boy on crutches. The text says the fighter was hit in a clash with U.S. forces, and that the boy, Le Dac, lost a leg to a Viet Cong mine, will receive an artificial leg and has had his schooling paid for by Marines' donations. Individual named cases of kindness stand in for the conduct of the whole force.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CỨU GIÚP
MỘT KẺ THÙ
BẠI TRẬN

MỘT NHÂN VIÊN Y TẾ HOA KỲ BỒNG MỘT THƯƠNG BINH VIỆT CỘNG ĐẾN MÁY BAY TRỰC THĂNG ĐỂ CHỞ VỀ BỆNH VIỆN GẦN ĐÓ CỨU CẤP - TÊN VIỆT CỘNG NÀY ĐÃ BỊ TRÚNG ĐẠN MỘT CHÊ TRONG TRẬN ĐỤNG ĐỘ VỚI CÁC LỰC LƯỢNG MỸ.

GIÚP ĐỠ
MỘT NGƯỜI
BẠN TRẺ

EM LÊ ĐẮC CHẲNG MAY MẤT MỘT CHÂN VÌ DẪM PHẢI MÌN VIỆT CỘNG - NGƯỜI TA SẼ THAY CHO EM MỘT CHÂN GIẢ VÀ CÁC BINH SĨ THỦY QUÂN LỤC CHIẾN HOA KỲ CŨNG ĐÃ QUYÊN GÓP TIỀN ĐỂ GỞI EM ĐI HỌC.

(Đây em đang vui vẻ dạo chơi với một binh sĩ Thủy Quân Lục Chiến, bạn của em).

SP-1477
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
AID FOR
A DEFEATED
ENEMY

An American medical worker carries a wounded Viet Cong soldier to a helicopter to be taken to a nearby hospital for emergency care - this Viet Cong was hit by a bullet [wording unclear] in a clash with American forces.

HELP FOR
A YOUNG
FRIEND

The boy Le Dac was unlucky enough to lose a leg by stepping on a Viet Cong mine - he will be given an artificial leg, and U.S. Marines have also donated money to send him to school.

(Here he is happily strolling with a Marine, his friend).

SP-1477
```

[← Agression du Nord (Aggression of the North)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/agression-du-nord-aggression-of-the-north-1965/) [Aids to Highlander's Hamlets, Binh Long Province (Công cuộc viện trợ vào tận các ấp Thượng tỉnh Bình-Long) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aids-to-highlanders-hamlets-binh-long-province-sp-1861-1965-1969/)

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