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title: 'Captured Weapons: Binh Duong and Pleiku Provinces'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/captured-weapons-binh-duong-pleiku-1965/
description: 'Two photographs of captured weapons are paired with Vietnamese captions: a telescope-sighted bolt-action rifle taken in Binh Duong Province in September'
section: Collection
---

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[![Captured Weapons: Binh Duong and Pleiku Provinces, 1965 US poster: Two photographs of captured weapons are paired](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/captured-weapons-binh-duong-pleiku-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/captured-weapons-binh-duong-pleiku-1965.jpg)

# Captured Weapons: Binh Duong and Pleiku Provinces

Two photographs of captured weapons are paired with Vietnamese captions: a telescope-sighted bolt-action rifle taken in Binh Duong Province in September 1965, and a recoilless gun taken in Pleiku Province in November 1965, with a red ellipse drawn round the markings on its barrel. The captions say the gun bears the words 'Communist China' and was seized from the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars. The tell is the evidence display: selected objects, a dated place for each and a highlighted marking support one claim about the source of enemy arms.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Tỉnh Bình Dương : 62 loại súng phục kích có hiệu năng cao với viễn vọng kính bắt được vào tháng 9-1965.

Tỉnh Pleiku:
Khẩu súng không giật có đề chữ Trung Cộng đã bắt được của Việt Cộng và lực lượng chính quy Bắc Việt vào tháng 11-1965.

6-745 (16)
```

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

```
Binh Duong Province: a 62-type high-performance ambush rifle with telescopic sight, captured in September 1965.

Pleiku Province:
A recoilless gun bearing the words 'Communist China' [Trung Cộng], captured from the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regular forces in November 1965.

6-745 (16)
```

Diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility. Chinese characters on the circled gun barrel: [illegible].

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