--- title: 'Our Resounding Victories (part 1: cover and opening claims), People''s Liberation Armed Forces leaflet to US servicemen, 1966' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plaf-our-resounding-victories-1966-part-1/ description: Cover and first inside panel of a folded English-language leaflet, 'Published by the Liberation Army', addressed to 'Armymen belonging to U.S.… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Our Resounding Victories (part 1: cover and opening claims), People's Liberation Armed Forces leaflet to US servicemen, 1966](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plaf-our-resounding-victories-1966-part-1.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plaf-our-resounding-victories-1966-part-1.jpg) # Our Resounding Victories (part 1: cover and opening claims), People's Liberation Armed Forces leaflet to US servicemen, 1966 Cover and first inside panel of a folded English-language leaflet, 'Published by the Liberation Army', addressed to 'Armymen belonging to U.S. Expeditionary Corps in South Vietnam'. The cover shows a rotated photograph of men and a helicopter; the inside panel states that more US troops mean greater defeats and tallies enemy troops, aircraft and vehicles claimed destroyed. The tell: only the issuer's claimed results are counted, with no losses of its own and no source for any figure (card-stacking), alongside labels such as 'U.S. and Satellites'. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [Panel 1, cover. Handwritten in red: VIET CONG PROPAGANDA PAPER] [Photograph, printed rotated, of a group of men and a helicopter] OUR RESOUNDING VICTORIES PUBLISHED BY THE LIBERATION ARMY [Panel 2, inside left] ARMYMEN BELONGING TO U.S. EXPEDITIONARY CORPS IN SOUTH VIETNAM The Johnson Government has been dispatching more and more U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam hoping to turn the situation favourable to them. But the result is that: The more U.S. troops dispatched to South Vietnam, the greater their defeats will be. The strategist attacking plan in the dry season in order to regain the initiative on the battlefield with the campaign « 5 Arrows » in the first months of 1966 completely failed. Within 5 months (November 1965 - March 1966) the South Vietnamese people and Army: - Wiped out 114.000 enemy troops (including 43.000 U.S. and Satellites) 30 battalions - 141 companies (including 14 battalions and 22 companies of U.S. and Satellites). - Shot down or damaged 1.440 air craft of all -types. - Destroyed 1.310 military cars (including 330 M.113 - M.118 - M.14 amphibious ones) and 27 warships. - On the centeral front of S.V.N. U.S. troops were attacked everywhere and received heavy losses. Here are the proofs about these losses in the recenttime. - June 18 - 26-1966. 1.402 U.S. troops of the 101 Division of paratroopers and the First Air Mobile cavalry Division were killed or wounded by the L.A. at Tuy an (Phu yen province) - July 14-1966. The Gosoi post (Quang-ngai province) 8 kilometres South of Chulai was attacked. ``` Read from 960 px panel scans. Spellings, decimal points used as thousands separators ('114.000') and place names are as printed; the bracketed panel labels are FRAME's. 'L.A.' is the leaflet's abbreviation for Liberation Army. The text is in English, so no translation is given. [← Noi gương Trần-Hưng-Đạo, toàn dân đoàn kết chống Cộng cứu nước (Follow the example of Tran Hung Dao: the whole people united against Communism to save the nation)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/noi-guong-tran-hung-dao-chong-cong-1966/) [Our Resounding Victories (part 2: dated claims and appeal), People's Liberation Armed Forces leaflet to US servicemen, 1966 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plaf-our-resounding-victories-1966-part-2/) ## Using 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) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [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). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.