--- title: These Will Not Be Aimed at Free Vietnamese (Captured Viet Cong Arms Ship) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/these-will-not-be-aimed-at-free-vietnamese-1966/ description: A portrait sheet (code SP-1173) reports that Vietnamese and U.S. naval and air forces found and destroyed a Viet Cong steel-hulled supply ship on 10 May section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. These Will Not Be Aimed at Free Vietnamese [![These Will Not Be Aimed at Free Vietnamese, 1966 US poster: A portrait sheet (code SP-1173) reports that Vietnamese and U.S.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/these-will-not-be-aimed-at-free-vietnamese-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/these-will-not-be-aimed-at-free-vietnamese-1966.jpg) # These Will Not Be Aimed at Free Vietnamese (Captured Viet Cong Arms Ship) A portrait sheet (code SP-1173) reports that Vietnamese and U.S. naval and air forces found and destroyed a Viet Cong steel-hulled supply ship on 10 May 1966. Photographs show the wrecked hull beside a Republic of Vietnam Navy junk, naval officers inspecting a captured heavy machine gun marked as made by 'Tiep Khac' (Czechoslovakia), and rows of mortar rounds and TNT crates. The closing line credits timely action by Republic of Vietnam and Allied forces with breaking every Viet Cong plot of terror and sabotage. Seized weapons and a stated tonnage are presented as proof of the claim. ## 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 ``` NHỮNG VŨ KHÍ NÀY KHÔNG CÒN CÓ THỂ GIẾT HẠI ĐỒNG BÀO ! Hải Quân và Không Quân Việt Mỹ đã tìm thấy và phá hủy một chiếc tàu sắt chở vũ khí, đạn dược của Việt Cộng ngày 10-5-66. Chiếc tàu chở độ 60 tấn dụng cụ. Trong đợt tấn công ta đã phá hủy độ 50 tấn. Đây một lần nữa mưu toan xâm nhập dụng cụ khủng bố của Việt Cộng bị thất bại. Chiếc tàu sắt vỡ đôi. Bên cạnh là chiếc hải thuyền của Hải Quân Việt Nam Cộng Hòa. Những khí cụ thu thập đã được đem ra trưng bày. Sĩ Quan Hải Quân đang xem xét một khẩu Đại Liên 30 do Tiệp Khắc chế tạo. Những đạn móc chê, Đại Bác dùng để tấn công miền Nam đã bị tịch thu. Phía sau là những thùng chất nổ TNT của Trung Cộng mà bọn Việt Cộng định dùng để khủng bố. Ngoài khí giới đạn dược, chiếc tàu còn chở những dụng cụ tuyên truyền như : máy chiếu phim, máy phóng thanh vân vân... HÀNH ĐỘNG KỊP THỜI CỦA QUÂN LỰC VIỆT NAM CỘNG HÒA VÀ ĐỒNG MINH ĐÃ PHÁ VỠ MỌI MƯU TOAN KHỦNG BỐ VÀ PHÁ HOẠI CỦA BỌN VIỆT CỘNG . [labels in photographs: Súng Đại liên 30 do TIỆP-KHẮC chế tạo; BÍCH KÍCH PHÁO 120 LY; Đạn dược du lịch do TNT. TRUNG CỘNG] SP-1173 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THESE WEAPONS CAN NO LONGER KILL COMPATRIOTS! Vietnamese and American Navy and Air Force found and destroyed a Viet Cong steel ship carrying weapons and ammunition on 10-5-66. The ship carried about 60 tonnes of equipment. In the attack we destroyed about 50 tonnes. This is once again a Viet Cong attempt to infiltrate terrorist equipment that has failed. The steel ship, broken in two. Beside it is a junk of the Republic of Vietnam Navy. The collected equipment has been put on display. A Navy officer examines a heavy machine gun made by Czechoslovakia. The mortar rounds and [artillery shells] the 'Big Uncle' used to attack the South have been seized. Behind them are crates of Chinese Communist TNT explosive that the Viet Cong intended to use to terrorise. Besides weapons and ammunition, the ship also carried propaganda equipment such as film projectors, loudspeakers, etc... THE TIMELY ACTION OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM AND THE ALLIES HAS BROKEN EVERY TERRORIST AND SABOTAGE PLOT OF THE VIET CONG. [labels in photographs: Heavy machine gun made by CZECHOSLOVAKIA; 120 mm MORTAR ROUNDS; Ammunition [...] TNT. CHINESE COMMUNISTS] SP-1173 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text. Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution; a few marks in small print could not be fully verified. [← The Way Back](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-way-back-chieu-hoi-nguyen-thi-mai-1966/) [Họ đã trở về tại Gia Định (They Have Come Back to the Right Cause) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/they-have-come-back-to-the-right-cause-chieu-hoi-gia-dinh-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.