Content note: Shows a photograph of the bodies of dead fighters lying in a muddy trench, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Tổng kết thiệt hại Việt Cộng trong năm Ất Tỵ 1964-1965 (Summary of VC Losses in the Year of the Snake, 1964-1965)
A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-929) tallies 'Viet Cong losses' for the Year of the Snake: nearly 18,000 weapons captured, more than 11,000 returnees and nearly 34,000 Viet Cong killed, with a bar chart comparing 1965 to 1964. Photographs show a captured-weapons display, bodies in a muddy trench and a group of ralliers outside a Chieu Hoi centre, and the slogan reads 'The day of total victory is not far!' The tell is a statistical claim presented as a trend, with the figures unsourced on the sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-2-929.
Text on the object
TỔNG KẾT THIỆT HẠI VIỆT CỘNG trong năm ẤT TỴ 1964-1965 Gần 18 ngàn vũ khí đủ loại đã bị quân ta tịch thu. Hơn 11.000 người đã trở về chính nghĩa Quốc Gia. Gần 34 ngàn Việt Cộng đã bị giết. SO SÁNH VỚI NĂM 1964 35.000 30.000 25.000 20.000 15.000 10.000 5.000 1964 1965 NHÂN MẠNG 1964 1965 VŨ KHÍ 1964 1965 QUI CHÁNH [sign in photograph, partly legible: TY CHIÊU HỒI] NGÀY TOÀN THẮNG KHÔNG CÒN XA! SP-929
SUMMARY OF VIET CONG LOSSES in the year of the Snake (Ất Tỵ) 1964-1965 Nearly 18 thousand weapons of all kinds were seized by our army. More than 11,000 people have returned to the National cause. Nearly 34 thousand Viet Cong were killed. COMPARED WITH 1964 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 1964 1965 CASUALTIES [lit. human lives] 1964 1965 WEAPONS 1964 1965 RALLIERS [Qui Chánh] [sign in photograph, partly legible: CHIEU HOI OFFICE] THE DAY OF TOTAL VICTORY IS NOT FAR! SP-929
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering of the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. 'Nhân mạng' is rendered 'casualties' for the chart axis; literally 'human lives'.
