Hãy nhớ lại người bạn cũ (Remember Your Former Comrade), leaflet ATF-022-70
Two-sided leaflet. One side is typed text on yellow asking the reader to remember a former comrade found alone with a serious foot wound, now recovering in hospital, and asking whether the reader could recover if seriously wounded. The other side is a faded photograph of a medic at a hospital bed dated 13 August 1970. The tell: a picture of care is used to pose the reader's own wounding as a question.
- Date
- August 24, 1970
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- 1st Psychological Operations Unit, 1st Australian Task Force (Nui Dat), for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Gorton Government
- Leader
- John Gorton
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Australian War Memorial (Official Records, 1st Psychological Operations Unit leaflets), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per holder (AWM: 'Copyright expired. Permission for reproduction not required'; issued 1970)
1st Psychological Operations Unit, 1st Australian Task Force, 1970; Australian War Memorial RC02842 (ATF-022-70).
Text on the object
[Side 1] HÃY NHỚ LẠI NGƯỜI BẠN CŨ CỦA CÁC BẠN. MỘT NGƯỜI VỚI VẾT THƯƠNG TRẦM-TRỌNG NƠI CHÂN. MỘT NGƯỜI ĐÃ ĐƯỢC TÌM THẤY CHỈ CÓ MỘT MÌNH TRONG KHI ĐANG ĐAU ĐỚN CÙNG CỰC. GIỜ ĐÂY NGƯỜI ẤY ĐANG ĐƯỢC BÌNH-PHỤC TẠI BỆNH-VIỆN LIỆU CÁC BẠN CÓ THỂ ĐƯỢC BÌNH-PHỤC NẾU CÁC BẠN BỊ THƯƠNG NẶNG? ATF-022-70 [Side 2] Hãy nhớ lại người bạn cũ. [photograph: a medic beside a patient in bed] Đang được bình-phục tại bệnh viện. 13-08-70.
[Side 1] REMEMBER YOUR FORMER COMRADE. A MAN WITH A SERIOUS WOUND TO THE FOOT. A MAN WHO WAS FOUND ALONE IN EXTREME PAIN. NOW HE IS RECOVERING IN HOSPITAL WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO RECOVER IF YOU WERE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED? ATF-022-70 [Side 2] Remember your former comrade. [photograph: a medic beside a patient in bed] Recovering in hospital. 13-08-70.
Both sides read from the AWM scans. The AWM identification strips ('AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL' and the accession number) at the foot of each scan are part of the scan and are omitted. The hosted image places the two sides of the leaflet one above the other (or side by side), joined by FRAME from AWM's two scans of the same object. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; AWM's English translation was consulted.
