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title: Hỡi các Sĩ-Quan và Binh-sĩ thuộc Trung-Đoàn 4 Chủ-Lực (To the Officers and Soldiers of the 274th Main Force Regiment), leaflet ATF-115-71
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/demoralise-274-main-force-regiment-leaflet-1971/
description: Two-sided text leaflet inside a border of red skulls, addressed to officers and soldiers of the 274th Main Force Regiment.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Border of drawn skulls around text addressed to enemy soldiers. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Hỡi các Sĩ-Quan và Binh-sĩ thuộc Trung-Đoàn 4 Chủ-Lực (To the Officers and Soldiers of the 274th Main Force Regiment), leaflet ATF-115-71

Two-sided text leaflet inside a border of red skulls, addressed to officers and soldiers of the 274th Main Force Regiment. It lists, in bullets, that the reader lacks medical care and food, that weapons rust, that leadership has failed and political cadres lack enthusiasm, and that he will win no victory and find no peace even in death. The tell: only one-sided deficiencies are listed, framed with death imagery.

## Text on the object

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

```
[Side 1]
Hỡi các Sĩ-Quan và Binh-sĩ thuộc Trung-Đoàn 4 Chủ-Lực !!!
- CÁC BẠN ĐANG THIẾU THỐN SỰ CHĂM SÓC THUỐC MEN.
- CÁC BẠN ĐÃ GẶP SỰ KHÓ KHĂN TRONG VIỆC TIẾP TẾ LƯƠNG THỰC.
- ĐÓ LÀ SỰ THẤT BẠI TRONG VIỆC LÃNH ĐẠO CỦA CẤP CHỈ-HUY CỦA CÁC BẠN.
- CÁN BỘ CHÍNH-TRỊ CỦA CÁC BẠN THIẾU SỰ NHIỆT TÂM ĐỂ DIỀU KHIỂN CÁC BẠN.

[Side 2]
Hỡi các Sĩ-Quan và Binh-sĩ thuộc Trung-Đoàn 4 Chủ-Lực !!!
- NHỮNG VŨ KHÍ CỦA CÁC BẠN BỊ RỈ-SÉT VÌ KHÔNG CÓ PHƯƠNG TIỆN ĐỂ BẢO TRÌ.
- CÁC BẠN TIẾP TỤC BỊ ĐE DỌA BỞI QUÂN ĐỊCH.
- CÁC BẠN SẼ KHÔNG CÓ ĐƯỢC MỘT SỰ CHIẾN THẮNG NÀO, SỰ HY SINH CỦA CÁC BẠN CŨNG SẼ TRỞ THÀNH VÔ NGHĨA, VÀ TRONG TINH THẦN CỦA CÁC BẠN CŨNG SẼ KHÔNG TÌM ĐƯỢC HÒA BÌNH.
115/71.
```

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

```
[Side 1]
O officers and soldiers of the 4th Main Force Regiment [AWM: 274th] !!!
- YOU ARE SHORT OF MEDICAL CARE.
- YOU HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY IN SUPPLYING FOOD.
- THAT IS A FAILURE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF YOUR COMMANDERS.
- YOUR POLITICAL CADRES LACK THE ENTHUSIASM TO DIRECT YOU.

[Side 2]
O officers and soldiers of the 4th Main Force Regiment [AWM: 274th] !!!
- YOUR WEAPONS ARE RUSTING BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MEANS TO MAINTAIN THEM.
- YOU CONTINUE TO BE THREATENED BY THE ENEMY.
- YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY VICTORY, YOUR SACRIFICE WILL BECOME MEANINGLESS, AND IN YOUR SPIRIT YOU WILL ALSO FIND NO PEACE.
115/71.
```

Both sides read from the AWM scans. The AWM identification strips ('AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL' and the accession number) at the foot of each scan are part of the scan and are omitted. The hosted image places the two sides of the leaflet one above the other (or side by side), joined by FRAME from AWM's two scans of the same object. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; AWM's English translation was consulted.

[← Phạm Văn Lê, dí-danh Phạm-Văn-Thao (Returnee Pham Van Le, alias Pham Van Thao), Chieu Hoi leaflet 1971](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hoi-chanh-pham-van-le-long-dat-leaflet-1971/) [Cùng các đội-viên du-kích và chi-bộ xã Bình-Ba (To the Binh Ba Guerrillas and Party Chapter), leaflet →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/binh-ba-guerrillas-and-party-chapter-leaflet-1971/)

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