Bình Long Anh Dũng / Valiant Binh Long (booklet cover)
Cover of a bilingual Vietnamese and English booklet on the 1972 defence of Bình Long province and An Lộc. A photograph of smiling soldiers in muddy fatigues sits between a green title block and a subtitle that states the outcome as 'the failure of communist North Vietnam'. The tell is the honorific 'valiant' in the title and a result stated in the subtitle before any account is given.
- Date
- 1972
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Psychological Warfare Department (Cục Tâm-lý-chiến), Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Thieu Government
- Leader
- Nguyen van Thieu
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons: PD-South VietnamGov, PD-Layout)
Psychological Warfare Department (Cục Tâm-lý-chiến), Republic of Vietnam, 1972; scan from Google Books (digitized by Google) via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
BÌNH LONG ANH DŨNG CUỘC THẢM BẠI CỦA CỘNG SẢN BẮC VIỆT TẠI NAM VIỆT NAM NĂM 1972 VALIANT BINH LONG The 1972 failure of communist North Vietnam
BINH LONG VALIANT (Vietnamese: Bình Long anh dũng) The disastrous defeat of the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1972 [English lines as printed:] VALIANT BINH LONG / The 1972 failure of communist North Vietnam
Vietnamese and English as printed on the cover; a faint 'Digitized by Google' mark at lower right is from the scan. Translation of the Vietnamese lines is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
