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'.
- Date
- 1966
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam ('The South Vietnam Liberation Army', the armed wing of the NLF), folded leaflet in English
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Ky Government
- Leader
- Nguyen Cao Ky
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Card stackingName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (collector-forum scans; no archive holding named), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons template PD-VietnamGov (no further basis stated); collector-forum scan, holding unnamed
The National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam (author line on Commons); scans via Wikimedia Commons. The file pages name no original holding; the PD-VietnamGov tag is the only stated rights basis.
Text on the object
[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.
