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title: 'South Vietnam: With the Help of Friendly Nations, South Vietnamese Soldiers Are Fighting and Winning'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/south-vietnam-with-the-help-of-friendly-nations-1965-1969/
description: An English-language sheet headed 'South Vietnam' shows a helmeted South Vietnamese soldier in portrait, a large blurred action photograph of a soldier
section: Collection
---

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[![South Vietnam: With the Help of Friendly Nations, South Vietnamese Soldiers Are Fighting and Winning, 1965 US poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/south-vietnam-with-the-help-of-friendly-nations-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/south-vietnam-with-the-help-of-friendly-nations-1965-1969.jpg)

# South Vietnam: With the Help of Friendly Nations, South Vietnamese Soldiers Are Fighting and Winning

An English-language sheet headed 'South Vietnam' shows a helmeted South Vietnamese soldier in portrait, a large blurred action photograph of a soldier wading and aiming a submachine gun, and a group of soldiers displaying a captured flag and weapons. The text says that with the help of friendly nations South Vietnamese soldiers are 'fighting and winning this war against the Viet Cong'. The tell is the 'winning' claim carried by the images of action and captured material.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
6

SOUTH VIETNAM

With the help of friendly nations, South Vietnamese soldiers are fighting and winning this war against the Viet Cong.

Government troops display captured Viet Cong flag and weapons.
```

[← South Korea: The Common Struggle, Korean Army, Navy and Marine Units Help in the Common Fight Against Aggression](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/south-korea-common-fight-against-aggression-1965-1969/) [Đoàn y tế Tây Ban Nha phục vụ đồng bào Gò Công (A Spanish Medical Team Serves the People of Go Cong) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spanish-medical-team-go-cong-1965-1969/)

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