--- title: Heroic Fighters of Phuoc Tuy photo poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heroic-fighters-phuoc-tuy-vietnamese-1965/ description: A Vietnamese photo poster headed 'Heroic fighters, Phuoc-Tuy province'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Heroic Fighters of Phuoc Tuy photo poster [![Heroic Fighters of Phuoc Tuy photo poster, 1965 US poster: A Vietnamese photo poster headed 'Heroic fighters, Phuoc-Tuy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heroic-fighters-phuoc-tuy-vietnamese-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heroic-fighters-phuoc-tuy-vietnamese-1965.jpg) # Heroic Fighters of Phuoc Tuy photo poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon) A Vietnamese photo poster headed 'Heroic fighters, Phuoc-Tuy province'. Photographs show a province chief pinning medals on militiamen, men on a tank, soldiers lined up with certificates, four captured guerrillas, and a dead man, after a 8 December 1964 attack on Dat-Do district. The tell is transfer: honour ceremonies and a caption that the dead man 'fought without just cause' attach legitimacy to the government side and withhold it from the other. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## 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 FIGHTERS, PHUOC-TUY PROVINCE. National fighters appear in time in any circumstance however remote, to effectively protect the property and lives of the people from the blood-thirsty hands of the Viet Cong. The Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief pins medals on the militiamen who fought bravely to repel the Viet Cong attack on Dat-Do district on the night of 8-12-1964. The Province Chief praises the national fighters who heroically defeated the Viet Cong J.10 Battalion on the night of 8-12-64. 4 male and female Viet Cong cadres captured by us in January 1965 in Long-Le district. Militia and regional-force fighters are commended after the glorious victory over the Viet Cong's well-trained battalion on the night of 8-12-64. The Viet Cong who died miserably, because he fought without just cause, was shot dead by our army in January 1965. ``` [← Press and Freedom poster, Free World supplement (English, Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/press-and-freedom-free-world-supplement-manila-english-1965/) [Picture of New Life in Phuoc Tuy photo poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/phuoc-tuy-new-life-picture-vietnamese-1965/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). 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