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title: Những chiến sĩ anh dũng tỉnh Phước-Tuy (Defenders of Phuoc Tuy)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/defenders-of-phuoc-tuy-1965-1969/
description: 'A blue-banner photo spread on provincial militia and army units in Phuoc Tuy province: a province chief pinning medals, troops on a tank.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** One panel shows a photograph of a dead combatant lying face down, and another shows four captured prisoners, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Những chiến sĩ anh dũng tỉnh Phước-Tuy, 1965 US poster: A blue-banner photo spread on provincial militia and army units](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/defenders-of-phuoc-tuy-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/defenders-of-phuoc-tuy-1965-1969.jpg)

# Những chiến sĩ anh dũng tỉnh Phước-Tuy (Defenders of Phuoc Tuy)

A blue-banner photo spread on provincial militia and army units in Phuoc Tuy province: a province chief pinning medals, troops on a tank, men receiving certificates, a loudspeaker vehicle, four captured Viet Cong prisoners and a photograph of a dead Viet Cong fighter. The captions report a Viet Cong attack beaten off on the night of 8 December 1964 and describe the Viet Cong as bloodthirsty and fighting without a just cause. The tell is the selection of decorations, captures and one corpse as the whole record of the engagement, with an epithet in the caption.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
NHỮNG CHIẾN SĨ ANH DŨNG
TỈNH PHƯỚC-TUY

Chiến sĩ quốc gia xuất hiện kịp thời bất cứ trường hợp nào dù xa xôi hẻo lánh, để bảo vệ hữu hiệu tài sản và tính mạng của đồng bào thoát khỏi bàn tay khát máu của Việt-cộng.

Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng gắn huy chương cho các anh em Nghĩa quân đã chiến đấu dũng cảm đẩy lui Việt-cộng tấn công quận Đất Đỏ trong đêm 8—12—1964.

Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng đang ngợi khen các chiến sĩ quốc gia đã anh dũng đánh bại Tiểu đoàn J.10 của Việt-cộng đêm 8—12—64.

4 Nam nữ cán binh Việt-cộng bị ta bắt sống hồi tháng 1—65 tại quận Long - Lễ.

Các chiến sĩ Nghĩa Quân và Địa Phương Quân được tuyên dương công trạng sau cuộc chiến thắng vẻ vang Tiểu đoàn thiện chiến của Việt-cộng đêm 8—12 —64.

Tên Việt-cộng chết một cách thê thảm , vì chiến đấu không có chính nghĩa ,đã bị quân đội ta bắn tử thương hồi tháng 1—1965 .
```

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

```
THE HEROIC WARRIORS OF PHUOC-TUY PROVINCE

The national warriors appear in time in any situation, however remote and secluded, to effectively protect the property and lives of the people from the bloodthirsty hands of the Viet Cong.

The Province Chief, a lieutenant colonel, pins medals on the Popular Force brothers who fought bravely to push back the Viet Cong attack on Dat Do district on the night of 8-12-1964.

The Province Chief, a lieutenant colonel, praising the national warriors who heroically defeated the Viet Cong J.10 Battalion on the night of 8-12-64.

4 male and female Viet Cong cadres captured alive by us in January 1965 in Long-Le district.

Popular Force and Regional Force warriors commended for merit after the glorious victory over the Viet Cong's seasoned battalion on the night of 8-12-64.

The Viet Cong, who died a miserable death because he fought without a just cause, was shot dead by our army in January 1965.
```

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