Chiến thắng Quảng Ngãi do cuộc hành quân "Liên Kết 26", 1965 US poster: A colour illustration shows a helmeted soldier

Chiến thắng Quảng Ngãi do cuộc hành quân "Liên Kết 26" (Victory in Quang Ngai by Operation "Cooperation 26" for Period March 3-7)

A colour illustration shows a helmeted soldier on a white horse waving and carrying the yellow-and-red-striped South Vietnamese flag, the horse's hoof on a torn red, blue-green and yellow-star flag. A results box lists 634 Viet Cong dead on the spot, 687 killed and wounded, 24 prisoners, 106 suspects detained and 96 weapons seized. The enemy is called 'puppet henchmen' and the flag under the hoof stands in for defeat.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Name-calling Card stacking Transfer

Date: 1965
Period: Cold War
Made by: Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government (sheet speaks of 'ARVN' and U.S. Marines in the third person)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Johnson Administration
Leader: Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience: Mixed
Purpose: Reassure
Theme: War and the military
Event: Vietnam War
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-2-1027.

Text on the object

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

CHIẾN THẮNG QUẢNG NGÃI
DO CUỘC HÀNH QUÂN "LIÊN KẾT 26" ( THÁNG 3, 3-7 )

Bộ đội Cộng-Sản Bắc-Việt và đồng bọn bù nhìn Việt-Cộng miền Nam đã thảm bại tại Quảng-Ngãi. Đây là một chiến công rực rỡ của Quân-Đội VNCH và thủy-quân lục chiến Hoa-Kỳ. Bị hướng dẫn sai lầm nên trung đoàn Cộng-Sản đã bị binh sĩ VNCH và Hoa-Kỳ tấn công bất ngờ tiêu diệt

KẾT QUẢ
634 Việt Cộng bỏ xác tại chỗ.
687 Việt Cộng bị chết và bị thương.
24 tù binh VC.
106 tình nghi VC bị bắt giữ.
96 vũ khí bị tịch thu.

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

VICTORY IN QUANG NGAI
BY THE OPERATION "COOPERATION 26" (MARCH, 3-7)

North Vietnamese communist troops and their puppet henchmen, the southern Viet Cong, were disastrously defeated in Quang-Ngai. This is a glorious feat of the army of the Republic of Vietnam and the U.S. Marines. Wrongly guided, the communist regiment was attacked by surprise and destroyed by Republic of Vietnam and American soldiers.

RESULTS
634 Viet Cong left their bodies on the spot.
687 Viet Cong killed and wounded.
24 VC prisoners.
106 VC suspects detained.
96 weapons seized.

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