--- title: Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà chiến thắng Việt-Cộng (ARVN 21st Infantry Division Crushes the VC) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/su-doan-21-bo-binh-chien-thang-viet-cong-sp-1416-1966/ description: A portrait sheet (code SP-1416) reports that on 2 to 4 September 1966 the 21st Infantry Division of the Republic of Vietnam routed a Viet Cong battalion section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà chiến thắng Việt-Cộng **Content note:** Photographs show seated captured prisoners and combat scenes, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà chiến thắng Việt-Cộng, 1966 US poster: A portrait sheet (code SP-1416) reports that on 2](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/su-doan-21-bo-binh-chien-thang-viet-cong-sp-1416-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/su-doan-21-bo-binh-chien-thang-viet-cong-sp-1416-1966.jpg) # Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà chiến thắng Việt-Cộng (ARVN 21st Infantry Division Crushes the VC) A portrait sheet (code SP-1416) reports that on 2 to 4 September 1966 the 21st Infantry Division of the Republic of Vietnam routed a Viet Cong battalion and several local units, with 308 Viet Cong killed, 26 captured and 190 weapons seized. Photographs show a helicopter assault, a machine-gun position, seated prisoners and a display of captured heavy weapons. A caption says these weapons can no longer terrorize the people, and the tally gives only enemy losses. ## 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 ``` SƯ ĐOÀN 21 BỘ BINH VIỆT-NAM CỘNG-HOÀ CHIẾN THẮNG VIỆT-CỘNG Ngày 2-3-4 tháng 9-1966 Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà đã đánh tan rã Tiểu Đoàn U-Minh 10 Việt-Cộng, đại đội du kích quân Giồng-Riềng, đại đội C. 520 và đơn vị hậu cần Tỉnh Ủy Bạc-Liêu, Ba-Xuyên. Dùng một chiến thuật tân kỳ, các chiến sĩ của Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh đã tấn công địch. Các chiến sĩ Việt-Nam Cộng-Hoà đang chờ đụng độ với địch. ● Một số tù binh Việt-Cộng bị bắt trong cuộc hành quân Dân-Chí 261/SD. TỔN THẤT ĐỊCH : Nhân mạng : 308 Việt-Cộng chết 26 Việt-Cộng bị bắt. VŨ KHÍ TỊCH THU : 190 súng , gồm có : 1 súng cối 81 ly 2 súng cối 60 ly 4 Đại bác 20 ly tự động 1 đại liên phòng không 2 đại liên Đông-Đức 1 đại liên 30 7 trung liên 172 súng cá nhân đủ loại TRUYỀN TIN : 8 máy truyền tin LINH TINH : 10 tấn đạn dược đủ loại 1 số mìn đủ loại. Những vũ khí nặng này không còn có thể khủng bố nhân dân được nữa. SP-1416 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE 21ST INFANTRY DIVISION OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM WINS VICTORY OVER THE VIET CONG On 2-3-4 September 1966 the 21st Infantry Division of the Republic of Vietnam shattered the Viet Cong U Minh 10 Battalion, the Giong Rieng guerrilla company, Company C.520 and the rear-service unit of the Bac Lieu and Ba Xuyen Provincial Committee. Using a new tactic, the soldiers of the 21st Infantry Division attacked the enemy. Soldiers of the Republic of Vietnam waiting to engage the enemy. ● Some Viet Cong prisoners captured in Operation Dan Chi 261/SD. ENEMY LOSSES: Casualties: 308 Viet Cong dead 26 Viet Cong captured. WEAPONS SEIZED: 190 weapons, including: 1 81 mm mortar 2 60 mm mortars 4 20 mm automatic cannon 1 anti-aircraft heavy machine gun 2 East German heavy machine guns 1 .30 [calibre] heavy machine gun 7 light machine guns 172 individual weapons of various kinds COMMUNICATIONS: 8 radios MISCELLANEOUS: 10 tonnes of ammunition of various kinds A number of mines of various kinds. These heavy weapons can no longer terrorize the people. SP-1416 ``` 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. 'Dân-Chí' is rendered as the name of the operation as printed; 'Đại liên' is rendered 'heavy machine gun' and 'Trung liên' 'light machine gun' per Vietnamese military usage. [← Phát triển ngành nuôi heo giống tại Bến Kéo (Development of Stock Pig Breeding at Ben Keo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stock-pig-breeding-ben-keo-1966/) [73 tá điền trở thành tiểu điền chủ (73 Tenant Farmers Become Small Landowners) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tenant-farmers-small-landowners-kien-hoa-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use 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.