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title: Long-Trường Thủ-Đức, mồ chôn Việt Cộng (Long Truong, Thu Duc, Graveyard of the Viet Cong)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/long-truong-thu-duc-mo-chon-viet-cong-1965/
description: A landscape sheet reports an attack on three hamlets of Long Truong village, Thu Duc district, at 1 a.m. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Photographs show dead combatants lying on the ground and soldiers examining the bodies, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Long-Trường Thủ-Đức, mồ chôn Việt Cộng, 1965 US poster: A landscape sheet reports an attack on three hamlets of Long Truong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/long-truong-thu-duc-mo-chon-viet-cong-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/long-truong-thu-duc-mo-chon-viet-cong-1965.jpg)

# Long-Trường Thủ-Đức, mồ chôn Việt Cộng (Long Truong, Thu Duc, Graveyard of the Viet Cong)

A landscape sheet reports an attack on three hamlets of Long Truong village, Thu Duc district, at 1 a.m. on 20 August 1965, with 8 Viet Cong bodies found, about 40 taken away dead or wounded and 7 weapons seized. Photographs show the district chief receiving captured arms and a province chief inspecting bodies behind a villager's house. The headline calls the place a 'graveyard of the Viet Cong' and the sheet shows corpses as proof of the result.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LONG-TRƯỜNG THỦ-ĐỨC
MỒ CHÔN VIỆT CỘNG

Trung Tá TRẦN-VĂN-MÀNH Quận Trưởng Thủ-Đức vui mừng tiếp nhận các thắng lợi phẩm.

Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng coi những xác chết nằm sau nhà đồng bào.

Một xác chết ngồi và nhiều xác chết nằm ngổn ngang.

Trung Tá TRẦN-VĂN-MÀNH Quận Trưởng Thủ-Đức đang xem khẩu súng Trung Cộng.

Võ khí đạn dược, quân trang, quân dược tịch thu được.

TRẬN CHIẾN LONG-TRƯỜNG
Hồi 1 giờ sáng ngày 20 tháng 8 năm 1965, chừng 1 Đại Đội Việt Cộng tấn công 3 ấp Tân Sinh TAM-ĐA, PHƯỚC-HIỆP và PHƯỚC-LAI thuộc Xã LONG-TRƯỜNG, Quận THỦ-ĐỨC Tỉnh GIA-ĐỊNH do Nghĩa Quân và Địa Phương Quân trú đóng.
Nhờ sự kiên tâm anh dũng chiến đấu của toàn thể các chiến sĩ, ta đã đẩy lui được nhiều đợt tấn công khốc liệt của Việt Cộng.
Kết quả : 8 xác Việt Cộng phơi thấy tại trận địa và chừng 40 tên vừa chết vừa bị thương được đồng bọn đem đi ( máu chảy đầy đồng ).
Tịch thu được 7 khẩu súng đủ loại và nhiều đạn dược, quân trang, quân dược, v.v...
Hay tin Việt Cộng tấn công, Trung Tá TRẦN-VĂN-MÀNH, Quận Trưởng THỦ-ĐỨC điều động binh sĩ tăng viện và đại bác yểm trợ, nâng cao tinh thần chiến đấu cho toàn thể anh em binh sĩ.
LONG-TRƯỜNG trước đây thường bị Việt Cộng phá rối nay là mồ chôn Việt Cộng, đồng bào các giới đều hân hoan về chiến thắng này .
```

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

```
LONG TRUONG, THU DUC
GRAVEYARD OF THE VIET CONG

Lieutenant Colonel TRAN-VAN-MANH, Thu Duc District Chief, happily receives the spoils of victory.

The Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief examines the corpses lying behind the compatriots' house.

One corpse sitting and many corpses lying scattered about.

Lieutenant Colonel TRAN-VAN-MANH, Thu Duc District Chief, examining a Chinese Communist gun.

Weapons, ammunition, uniforms and medical supplies seized.

THE BATTLE OF LONG TRUONG
At 1 a.m. on 20 August 1965, about one Viet Cong company attacked the 3 New Life hamlets of TAM-DA, PHUOC-HIEP and PHUOC-LAI of LONG-TRUONG village, THU DUC district, GIA-DINH province, garrisoned by Popular Force and Regional Force troops.
Thanks to the steadfast and heroic fighting of all the soldiers, we repelled many fierce Viet Cong attacks.
Result: 8 Viet Cong bodies found on the battlefield and about 40 killed or wounded carried away by their comrades (blood flowing across the field).
7 weapons of various kinds seized, with much ammunition, uniforms, medical supplies, etc.
On hearing of the Viet Cong attack, Lieutenant Colonel TRAN-VAN-MANH, Thu Duc District Chief, sent reinforcements and artillery support, raising the fighting spirit of all the soldiers.
LONG TRUONG, once often harassed by the Viet Cong, is now the Viet Cong's graveyard, and compatriots of all walks of life are joyful at this victory.
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering of the poster's Vietnamese text and has not been checked by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as legible at this resolution. 'Nghĩa Quân' and 'Địa Phương Quân' are the Popular Force and Regional Force militias.

[← Long-Trường Thủ-Đức: Mồ chôn Việt Cộng (Long Truong Thu Duc, Graveyard of the VC)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/long-truong-thu-duc-graveyard-of-the-vc-1965-1969/) [Making Revolutionary Development Work →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/making-revolutionary-development-work-1965-1969/)

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