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title: Chiến thắng An-Phú (Châu Đốc) (Victory at An Phu, Chau Doc)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chien-thang-an-phu-chau-doc-1966/
description: A JUSPAO poster (code SP-1220) reports the night of 18 to 19 May 1966 at the Khanh An post in An Phu.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of dead bodies lying on the ground around a military post. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Chiến thắng An-Phú (Châu Đốc) (Victory at An Phu, Chau Doc)

A JUSPAO poster (code SP-1220) reports the night of 18 to 19 May 1966 at the Khanh An post in An Phu. Photographs show enemy dead lying around the post, a soldier and a captive holding two rockets, a pile of captured weapons and a general pinning medals. The text gives 42 Viet Cong bodies left and 150 killed or wounded and carried off, and says the rocket markings show 'Chinese Communists' directly run the war. The Viet Cong are called 'bọn' ('gang'), and only one side's losses and captures are counted.

## Text on the object

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

```
CHIẾN THẮNG AN-PHÚ (Châu Đốc)

CHÍNH NGHĨA bao giờ cũng thắng hưng tần.

Bọn Việt Cộng dùng chiến thuật biến người, phung phí nhân mạng binh sĩ quyết hạ Đồn Khánh An (An-Phú) nhưng cuối cùng mang lấy thảm bại trước sức chiến đấu dũng cảm của Quân Dân ta.

Đêm 18 rạng 19-5-66, 2 tiểu đoàn chủ lực và một đại đội Địa-Phương Việt Cộng đã tấn công Đồn Khánh An, (An-Phú) và địa điểm đóng quân của Đại Đội 442 Lực Lượng biên phòng thuộc Quận An-Phú. Lực lượng đồn trú của ta với sự yểm trợ hữu hiệu của pháo binh đã phản công mãnh liệt và gây tổn thất nặng nề cho Việt Cộng.
Kết quả: 42 Việt Cộng bỏ xác tại trận - 150 Việt Cộng chết và bị thương được đồng bọn mang đi.
Vũ khí tịch thu: 12 Trung Liên - 1 Đại liên phòng không 1 Súng phóng hỏa tiễn - 1 Súng phóng hỏa châu - 3 Súng trường - 1 Cát Bin - 1 Thompson - Rất nhiều đạn dược cũng quân trang quân dụng.

Sau trận đánh, xác địch nằm ngổn ngang quanh đồn Khánh An: kết quả của chiến thuật biến người mà Việt Cộng đã đưa thanh niên vô tội đổ đạn cho chúng.

Hai trái đạn hỏa tiễn ta tịch thu được mang nhãn hiệu Trung Cộng do Cộng Sản Bắc Việt chuyển vận vào Nam chứng minh cụ thể bọn Trung Cộng trực tiếp điều khiển cuộc chiến tranh xâm lăng miền Nam.

Những chiến lợi phẩm ta đoạt được phần nhiều do Trung Cộng và các nước Cộng Sản chế tạo.

Chuẩn Tướng Tư Lệnh Sư Đoàn 9 Bộ Binh kiêm Tư Lệnh Khu 41/CT gắn huy chương cho các chiến sĩ hữu công trong chiến thắng của tiền đồn Khánh An và Khánh Bình (An-Phú).

HOAN NGHINH TINH THẦN QUYẾT CHIẾN VÀ QUYẾT THẮNG CỦA CÁC CHIẾN SĨ QUÂN ĐỘI VIỆT-NAM CỘNG-HÒA.

SP-1220
```

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

```
VICTORY AT AN PHU (Chau Doc)

JUST CAUSE always [wins and flourishes] (the last two words of the line are hard to read).

The Viet Cong ('bọn Việt Cộng') used human-wave tactics, squandering their soldiers' lives, determined to take Khanh An Post (An Phu), but in the end met a disastrous defeat before the brave fighting power of our army and people.

On the night of 18 into 19-5-66, two Viet Cong main-force battalions and one local-force company attacked Khanh An Post (An Phu) and the position of the 442nd Border Defence Company of An Phu District. Our garrison, with effective artillery support, counter-attacked fiercely and inflicted heavy losses on the Viet Cong.
Result: 42 Viet Cong left their bodies on the field - 150 Viet Cong killed and wounded were carried off by their comrades.
Weapons seized: 12 light machine guns - 1 anti-aircraft heavy machine gun - 1 rocket launcher - 1 flare launcher - 3 rifles - 1 carbine - 1 Thompson - a great deal of ammunition and military equipment.

After the battle, enemy bodies lie scattered around Khanh An post: the result of the human-wave tactic by which the Viet Cong sent innocent youths to take the fire for them.

The two rocket rounds we seized bear Chinese Communist markings and were shipped south by the North Vietnamese Communists, concretely proving that the Chinese Communists ('bọn Trung Cộng') directly direct the war of aggression against the South.

The spoils we seized were mostly made by Communist China and the Communist countries.

The Brigadier General commanding the 9th Infantry Division and Zone 41 Tactical Command pins medals on the soldiers who distinguished themselves in the victory of the Khanh An and Khanh Binh (An Phu) outposts.

WELCOME THE DETERMINATION TO FIGHT AND DETERMINATION TO WIN OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM.

SP-1220
```

Machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. The last two words of the opening slogan ('hưng tần') are transcribed as read and may be a misreading.

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