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title: Chiến thắng lớn tại Vĩnh-Long (Great Victory in Vinh Long)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/great-victory-in-vinh-long-1966/
description: A Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1276) reports an operation near Vinh Long on 5 July 1966 as a 'great victory'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs on the sheet show rows of dead soldiers on a field and captured prisoners seated on the ground, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Chiến thắng lớn tại Vĩnh-Long, 1966 US poster: A Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1276) reports an operation near Vinh Long](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/great-victory-in-vinh-long-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/great-victory-in-vinh-long-1966.jpg)

# Chiến thắng lớn tại Vĩnh-Long (Great Victory in Vinh Long)

A Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1276) reports an operation near Vinh Long on 5 July 1966 as a 'great victory'. Photographs show helicopters landing troops, officers at a map, captured weapons stacked in a field, prisoners seated on the ground and rows of dead, and a boxed results list gives 109 enemy dead, 4 prisoners and 42 weapons. Named commanders are shown at the front praising the troops; counts and photographs carry the claim, and no friendly losses are listed.

## 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

```
[emblem: numeral 9]
CHIẾN THẮNG LỚN TẠI VĨNH-LONG

Sáng ngày 5-7-66, Tiểu Khu Vĩnh-Long mở cuộc hành quân NGÔ-QUYỀN 63 với sự yểm trợ của Bộ Tư Lệnh Khu 41 Chiến Thuật bằng cuộc hành quân Long-Phi 977, tảo thanh Việt-Cộng tại vùng 13 cây số tây nam Tỉnh lỵ Vĩnh-Long đã triệt hạ Tiểu Đoàn 857 Cơ Động Việt-Cộng tỉnh Vĩnh-Long và tịch thu được nhiều vũ khí và đạn dược.

Trực thăng vận là phương tiện giúp bộ binh hoàn thành nhiệm vụ diệt địch mau chóng và hữu hiệu.

Chuẩn Tướng Lâm-quang-Thi, Tư Lệnh sư đoàn 9 Bộ Binh kiêm khu 41 Chiến Thuật và Trung Tá Huỳnh-ngọc-Diệp, Tỉnh Trưởng kiêm Tiểu khu trưởng Vĩnh-Long đã đích thân ra mặt trận trực tiếp chỉ huy cuộc hành quân.

Khi binh sĩ đang thu dọn chiến trường, Chuẩn Tướng Tư Lệnh Khu 41 Chiến Thuật và Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng Vĩnh-Long đã đến tận mặt trận tiếp nhận và ngợi khen các binh sĩ hữu công.

Những binh sĩ Việt-Cộng bị ta bắt sống tại mặt trận.

KẾT-QUẢ
- 109 Việt-Cộng bỏ xác tại trận - 4 Việt-Cộng bị bắt sống - Hơn 100 tên Việt-Cộng khác chết và bị thương được đồng bọn mang đi. Ta còn tịch thu 42 khẩu súng đủ loại gồm có:
- 1 đại bác 57 ly không giật - 1 Đại liên Đông-Đức - 1 súng phóng hoả tiễn B.40 - 5 Trung liên - 3 Tiểu liên Thompson - 3 Tiểu liên K.50 - 1 Tiểu liên Trung-Cộng - 1 súng phóng lựu M.79 - 9 súng trường NGA - 7 súng trường MAUSER - 3 súng Garant - 5 súng carbine - 2 súng MAS 36 - 1 chân đại liên phòng không - 1 súng cối 60 ly bị phá hủy - 2 máy nhắm Đại liên phòng không - 1 thùng lựu đạn - 20 quả mìn chống người - 10 quả mìn chống chiến xa - 2 quả đạn Rocket - 1 ống dòm - 10.000 viên đạn đủ loại - 1 thùng âu dược - nhiều quân trang, quân dụng và tài liệu.

Hàng trăm tên giặc Cộng chết bỏ xác ngổn ngang khắp chiến trường.

SP-1276
```

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

```
[emblem: numeral 9]
GREAT VICTORY AT VINH LONG

On the morning of 5-7-66 [5 July 1966], Vinh Long Sub-Sector launched Operation NGO QUYEN 63, supported by the 41st Tactical Zone Command's Operation Long Phi 977, to sweep the Viet Cong from an area 13 kilometres south-west of Vinh Long town. It destroyed the Viet Cong Vinh Long Provincial Mobile 857th Battalion and seized many weapons and much ammunition.

The helicopter lift is the means that helps the infantry complete its mission of destroying the enemy quickly and effectively.

Brigadier General Lam Quang Thi, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division and of the 41st Tactical Zone, and Lieutenant Colonel Huynh Ngoc Diep, Province Chief and Vinh Long Sub-Sector Commander, went to the front in person to command the operation directly.

While the soldiers were clearing the battlefield, the Brigadier General commanding the 41st Tactical Zone and the Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief of Vinh Long came to the front itself to receive and praise the meritorious soldiers.

Viet Cong soldiers captured alive by us at the front.

RESULTS
- 109 Viet Cong left their bodies at the scene - 4 Viet Cong captured alive - More than 100 other Viet Cong killed and wounded were carried away by their comrades. We also seized 42 weapons of all kinds, including:
- 1 57mm recoilless gun - 1 East German heavy machine gun - 1 B.40 rocket launcher - 5 light machine guns - 3 Thompson submachine guns - 3 K.50 submachine guns - 1 Chinese Communist submachine gun - 1 M.79 grenade launcher - 9 Russian rifles - 7 Mauser rifles - 3 Garand rifles - 5 carbines - 2 MAS 36 rifles - 1 anti-aircraft machine-gun tripod - 1 destroyed 60mm mortar - 2 anti-aircraft machine-gun sights - 1 box of grenades - 20 anti-personnel mines - 10 anti-tank mines - 2 rocket rounds - 1 telescope - 10,000 rounds of all kinds - 1 medical chest - much uniforms, equipment and documents.

Hundreds of Communist enemy dead left their bodies strewn across the battlefield.

SP-1276
```

Bracketed items are FRAME's glosses, not printed text.

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