--- title: Chiến thắng Long-Phi 955 của Sư-đoàn 9 Bộ-binh (The 955th Long Phi Victory by the 9th Infantry Division) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/long-phi-955-victory-9th-infantry-division-1966/ description: A Vietnamese photo sheet (code SP-1014) reports that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam's 9th Division operation Long Phi 955. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Chiến thắng Long-Phi 955 của Sư-đoàn 9 Bộ-binh **Content note:** Photographs, as issued, of dead soldiers left on a battlefield and of a wounded prisoner, alongside a soldier holding a small child. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Chiến thắng Long-Phi 955 của Sư-đoàn 9 Bộ-binh, 1966 US poster: A Vietnamese photo sheet (code SP-1014) reports that the Army](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/long-phi-955-victory-9th-infantry-division-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/long-phi-955-victory-9th-infantry-division-1966.jpg) # Chiến thắng Long-Phi 955 của Sư-đoàn 9 Bộ-binh (The 955th Long Phi Victory by the 9th Infantry Division) A Vietnamese photo sheet (code SP-1014) reports that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam's 9th Division operation Long Phi 955, 10 to 12 February 1966 in Kien Binh district, Kien Giang, scattered two Viet Cong battalions, with 137 bodies left, 150 carried away, one prisoner and 36 weapons seized. Photographs show a soldier holding a small child captioned as an orphan of Viet Cong killings, relief goods handed out, enemy dead, captured arms, a prisoner and a visit by the corps commander. The sheet joins an enemy casualty count to a child's image and a rhetorical question about guilt. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CHIẾN THẮNG LONG-PHI 955 CỦA SƯ-ĐOÀN 9 BỘ-BINH CUỘC HÀNH QUÂN LONG-PHI 955 CỦA SƯ-ĐOÀN 9 BỘ-BINH TỔ CHỨC TRONG 3 NGÀY TỪ 10-2-66 ĐẾN 12-2-66 TẠI 12 CÂY SỐ ĐÔNG-BẮC QUẬN KIÊN-BÌNH, KIÊN-GIANG ĐÃ ĐÁNH TAN TIỂU-ĐOÀN U-MINH 10 VÀ TIỂU-ĐOÀN TÂY-ĐÔ CỦA VIỆT-CỘNG. ● SỐ ĐỊCH TỔN THẤT: 137 VC BỎ XÁC TẠI TRẬN, 150 TÊN CHẾT VÀ BỊ THƯƠNG ĐƯỢC ĐỒNG BỌN MANG ĐI, 1 TÊN BỊ BẮT SỐNG. ● SỐ CHIẾN LỢI PHẨM TA TỊCH THU: 36 SÚNG GỒM NHIỀU LOẠI NHƯ ĐẠI BÁC KHÔNG GIẬT, ĐẠI LIÊN, TRUNG LIÊN, VÂN VÂN... 3 MÌN. NHIỀU ĐẠN DƯỢC VÀ TÀI LIỆU QUAN TRỌNG. Em bé nầy đã lâm nên tội tình gì? Cha mẹ em đã bị VC giết khi chúng rút lui. Xác chết VC bỏ lại chiến trường. Khí giới Trung-Cộng và Nga-Sô bị quân ta tịch thu. Tặng phẩm gồm có soong, chảo, thau rửa mặt, mền len, vải, sách báo đã được phát tặng đồng bào ngay cạnh chiến trường. Tên Việt-Cộng bị bắt sống. Trung-Tướng Tư-Lệnh Quân-Đoàn IV cùng Đại-Tá Tư-Lệnh Sư-Đoàn 9 Bộ-Binh đã đến chiến trường để tưởng thưởng các chiến sĩ hữu công. SP-1014 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE LONG PHI 955 VICTORY OF THE 9TH INFANTRY DIVISION The Long Phi 955 operation of the 9th Infantry Division, held for 3 days from 10-2-66 to 12-2-66 at kilometre marker 12 north-east of Kien Binh district, Kien Giang, scattered the Viet Cong's U Minh 10 Battalion and Tay Do Battalion. ● ENEMY LOSSES: 137 VC left bodies on the field, 150 dead and wounded carried away by their comrades, 1 taken alive. ● SPOILS WE SEIZED: 36 weapons of many kinds such as recoilless rifles, heavy machine guns, medium machine guns, etc.... 3 mines. Much ammunition and important documents. What crime has this baby committed? His parents were killed by the VC when they retreated. VC dead left on the battlefield. Chinese Communist and Soviet arms seized by our troops. Gifts including pots, pans, wash basins, wool blankets, cloth, books and papers were handed out to the people right beside the battlefield. A Viet Cong taken alive. The Lieutenant General commanding IV Corps together with the Colonel commanding the 9th Infantry Division came to the battlefield to reward the meritorious fighters. SP-1014 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, not verified by a fluent reader. 'Cây số' is rendered 'kilometre marker'; 'đại liên' and 'trung liên' are rendered as heavy and medium machine guns. [← Nụ cười đầu tiên của em Lê Thị Cam (Little Le Thi Cam's First Smile)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/little-le-thi-cam-first-smile-1966/) ["毛主席第七次检阅文化革命大军" (Chairman Mao reviews the great army of the Cultural Revolution for the seventh time), woven silk picture →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mao-zhou-lin-silk-picture-seventh-review-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer) - [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon) - [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon) - ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). 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