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title: Chiến thắng rực rỡ của quân đội ta và Hoa Kỳ tại Chu Lai (Glorious Victory of our Troops and US Forces at Chu-Lai)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chien-thang-ruc-ro-tai-chu-lai-poster-1965/
description: A landscape sheet of five photographs, among them a machine-gunner in a field, a dead fighter beside two soldiers.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs include a dead fighter lying on a track, prisoners seated on the ground and a medical examination, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Chiến thắng rực rỡ của quân đội ta và Hoa Kỳ tại Chu Lai, 1965 US poster: A landscape sheet of five photographs, among them](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chien-thang-ruc-ro-tai-chu-lai-poster-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chien-thang-ruc-ro-tai-chu-lai-poster-1965.jpg)

# Chiến thắng rực rỡ của quân đội ta và Hoa Kỳ tại Chu Lai (Glorious Victory of our Troops and US Forces at Chu-Lai)

A landscape sheet of five photographs, among them a machine-gunner in a field, a dead fighter beside two soldiers, seated prisoners and a medical check-up, reports the 18 August 1965 attack on the Chu Lai area. It gives 563 'Viet Cong' killed out of about 2,000, over 1,000 wounded carried off, others buried in bunkers or captured, and credits help from local people and protection of civilians. Casualty figures and a welfare photograph share one sheet, and the figures are the poster's own.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
CHIẾN THẮNG RỰC RỠ
CỦA QUÂN ĐỘI TA VÀ HOA KỲ
tại
CHU LAI

HẦM LŨY VÀ CHIẾN THUẬT BIỂN NGƯỜI CỦA BỌN VIỆT CỘNG KHÔNG CÒN GIÁ TRỊ ĐỐI VỚI LỰC LƯỢNG QUÂN ĐỘI CÙNG VŨ KHÍ TỐI TÂN CỦA QUÂN ĐỘI MỸ GIÚP TA HIỆN NAY.

KHU CHU LAI, QUẢNG NGÃI VỚI LÀNG VÂN TƯỜNG KIÊN CỐ NHƯ MỘT TỔNG HÀNH DINH VIỆT CỘNG ĐÃ BỊ QUÂN ĐỘI TA VÀ MỸ TẤN CÔNG NGÀY 18-8-1965 VỪA QUA.

TRONG SỐ 2000 QUÂN ĐÓNG TẠI CHU LAI, 563 CỘNG QUÂN ĐÃ BỊ GIẾT VÀ PHỎNG ĐỘ HƠN 1000 QUÂN BỊ THƯƠNG ĐƯỢC CHÚNG MANG THEO.

ĐÓ LÀ CHƯA KỂ SỐ BỊ BOM CHÔN SỐNG TRONG CÁC HÀO LŨY. MỘT SỐ LỚN BỊ BẮT SỐNG.

CHÍNH NHỜ DÂN CHÚNG ĐỊA PHƯƠNG GIÚP ĐỠ MÀ QUÂN ĐỘI ĐÃ TẢO TRỪ ĐƯỢC BỌN VIỆT CỘNG.
DÂN CHÚNG TRONG VÙNG ĐÃ ĐƯỢC QUÂN ĐỘI TA VÀ MỸ BẢO VỆ SĂN SÓC.
```

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

```
GLORIOUS VICTORY OF OUR ARMY AND THE AMERICANS at CHU LAI

The Viet Cong's bunkers and human-wave tactics no longer have any value against the army and the modern weapons of the American army now helping us.

The Chu Lai area, Quang Ngai, with the fortified Van Tuong village like a Viet Cong headquarters, was attacked by our army and the Americans on 18-8-1965 just past.

Of the 2,000 troops stationed at Chu Lai, 563 communist troops were killed and an estimated more than 1,000 wounded were carried off by them.

That does not count those buried alive by bombs in the bunkers. A large number were captured alive.

It is thanks to the help of the local people that the army was able to clear out the Viet Cong. The people in the area have been protected and cared for by our army and the Americans.
```

Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this resolution.

[← Chiến thắng Quảng Ngãi do cuộc hành quân "Liên Kết 26" (Victory in Quang Ngai by Operation "Cooperation 26" for Period March 3-7)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chien-thang-quang-ngai-lien-ket-26-poster-1965-1969/) [Chiến thắng của Sư đoàn I Kỵ binh Không vận Hoa Kỳ tại Pleime (Victory of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division at Pleime) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chien-thang-su-doan-1-ky-binh-pleime-1965/)

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