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title: Tiểu đoàn D-303 Việt Cộng bị ô danh trong cuộc tấn công lực lượng tự vệ ấp Tân Sinh (D-303 Battalion Loses Reputation in Futile Attempt to Overcome Hamley Defenses)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tieu-doan-d-303-viet-cong-bi-o-danh-ap-tan-sinh-buon-dlung-1965-1969/
description: A text-and-photo poster (code SP-1814) reports a 21 to 22 February night attack by the Viet Cong D-303 battalion on Buon Dlung.
section: Collection
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# Tiểu đoàn D-303 Việt Cộng bị ô danh trong cuộc tấn công lực lượng tự vệ ấp Tân Sinh (D-303 Battalion Loses Reputation in Futile Attempt to Overcome Hamley Defenses)

A text-and-photo poster (code SP-1814) reports a 21 to 22 February night attack by the Viet Cong D-303 battalion on Buon Dlung, a Highlander (Montagnard) hamlet in Darlac, which it says two platoons of Highlander militia repelled. It lists 44 enemy dead, 2 captured and a tally of captured weapons against 4 dead and 27 wounded on the defenders' side. The issuer's own count of losses on both sides forms the whole case.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
TIỂU ĐOÀN D-303 VIỆT CỘNG BỊ Ô DANH TRONG CUỘC TẤN CÔNG LỰC LƯỢNG TỰ VỆ ẤP TÂN SINH

BAN MÊ THUỘT: Đêm 21 rạng 22/2 tiểu-đoàn D-303 chính quy Việt Cộng đã kéo đến tấn công Buôn Dlung, một ấp tân sinh của đồng bào Thượng thuộc quận Buôn Hô (Darlac). Lực lượng phòng thủ gồm có 2 trung đội nghĩa quân Thượng, đã anh dũng chiến đấu đẩy lui 4 đợt tấn công của địch. Chi khu Buôn Hô đã bắn trọng pháo yểm trợ và lực lượng tiếp viện đã đến tiếp cứu. Trận đánh diễn ra ác liệt trọn ngày. Trước sức tấn công vũ bão của quân ta, tiểu đoàn Việt Cộng D-303 đã khốn đốn tan rã bỏ lại rất nhiều tử thi đồng bọn. Chiến thắng này là một sự hãnh diện cho các chiến sĩ Buôn Dlung.
Kiểm soát trận địa ta đếm được:
- 44 XÁC VIỆT CỘNG CHẾT TẠI CHỖ.
- 2 TÊN BỊ BẮT SỐNG.
- 50 CHẾT VÀ BỊ THƯƠNG ĐƯỢC ĐỒNG BỌN MANG ĐI.
- 1 SÚNG MÁY, 1 SÚNG TRƯỜNG TỰ ĐỘNG, 10 TIỂU LIÊN AK 50, 4 SÚNG TRƯỜNG, 6 CẠT BIN, 55 LỰU ĐẠN, 4 TRÁI ĐẠN CHỐNG CHIẾN XA CÙNG NHIỀU TÀI LIỆU QUAN TRỌNG BỊ TA TỊCH THU.
BÊN TA CÓ 4 CHIẾN SĨ TỬ THƯƠNG, 27 BỊ THƯƠNG. VŨ KHÍ ĐƯỢC BẢO TOÀN.

Thiếu tá Nguyễn Sơn Hà, Phó Tỉnh Trưởng Nội An, tiểu khu phó đang xem xét loại đạn chống chiến xa mang nhãn hiệu của Trung Cộng.

Một pha xung phong nảy lửa trong trận Buôn Dlung.

Một số vũ khí Việt Cộng bị ta tịch thu.

SP-1814
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
VIET CONG D-303 BATTALION DISGRACED IN ATTACK ON THE SELF-DEFENCE FORCE OF TAN SINH HAMLET

BAN ME THUOT: On the night of 21 to 22 February the regular Viet Cong D-303 battalion came to attack Buon Dlung, a new hamlet of Highlander compatriots in Buon Ho district (Darlac). The defending force consisted of 2 platoons of Highlander militia, who fought heroically and drove back 4 enemy assaults. Buon Ho sub-sector fired heavy artillery in support and a relief force came to the rescue. The battle raged fiercely all day. Before the storming assault of our troops, the Viet Cong D-303 battalion was thrown into disorder and broke up, leaving behind many corpses of its comrades. This victory is a source of pride for the Buon Dlung fighters.
On controlling the battlefield we counted:
- 44 VIET CONG BODIES DEAD ON THE SPOT.
- 2 CAPTURED ALIVE.
- 50 DEAD AND WOUNDED CARRIED AWAY BY THEIR COMRADES.
- 1 MACHINE GUN, 1 AUTOMATIC RIFLE, 10 AK-50 SUBMACHINE GUNS, 4 RIFLES, 6 CARBINES, 55 GRENADES, 4 ANTI-TANK ROUNDS AND MANY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS WERE SEIZED BY US.
OUR SIDE HAD 4 SOLDIERS KILLED, 27 WOUNDED. WEAPONS WERE PRESERVED.

Major Nguyen Son Ha, Deputy Province Chief for Internal Security and deputy sector commander, examining the type of anti-tank rounds bearing the mark of Communist China.

A fiery assault moment in the Buon Dlung battle.

Some Viet Cong weapons seized by us.

SP-1814
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution.

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