--- title: Tiểu đoàn U-Minh 2 Việt Cộng lại thất trận (U Minh 2 Battalion Routed Again, VC Forcing 14-15 Year Old Youths to Fight) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/u-minh-2-battalion-routed-again-1966/ description: A Vietnamese photo sheet (code SP-1464) reports that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam's 21st Division defeated the Viet Cong's U Minh 2 Battalion on 24 section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Tiểu đoàn U-Minh 2 Việt Cộng lại thất trận [![Tiểu đoàn U-Minh 2 Việt Cộng lại thất trận, 1966 US poster: A Vietnamese photo sheet (code SP-1464) reports that the Army](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/u-minh-2-battalion-routed-again-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/u-minh-2-battalion-routed-again-1966.jpg) # Tiểu đoàn U-Minh 2 Việt Cộng lại thất trận (U Minh 2 Battalion Routed Again, VC Forcing 14-15 Year Old Youths to Fight) A Vietnamese photo sheet (code SP-1464) reports that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam's 21st Division defeated the Viet Cong's U Minh 2 Battalion on 24 to 25 September 1966 in An Xuyen and Bac Lieu, with 118 killed, 68 captured and a list of seized weapons, and charges that the Viet Cong forced 14- and 15-year-old boys to fight. Photographs show seated shirtless youths, a named 14-year-old speaking with an officer, the division commander at a map, troops wading a stream and rows of captured arms. The sheet sets a conscription accusation against the enemy beside a casualty and weapons tally. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` TIỂU ĐOÀN U-MINH 2 VIỆT CỘNG LẠI THẤT TRẬN VIỆT CỘNG BẮT BUỘC THIẾU NHI 14 —15 TUỔI CHIẾN ĐẤU CHO CHÚNG. NGÀY 24—25 THÁNG 9, 1966 SƯ ĐOÀN 21 BỘ BINH VIỆT NAM CỘNG HÒA ĐÃ ĐÁNH TAN TIỂU ĐOÀN U-MINH 2 VIỆT CỘNG VÀ MỘT ĐƠN VỊ THUỘC TIỂU ĐOÀN CƠ ĐỘNG VIỆT CỘNG TẠI SÓC TRĂNG. CUỘC HÀNH QUÂN TRONG TỈNH AN XUYÊN VÀ BẠC LIÊU VỪA QUA CHỨNG QUYẾT SỰ THẬT: BỌN VIỆT CỘNG ĐÃ DÙNG CÁC THIẾU NHI 14—15 TUỔI ĐƯA RA CHIẾN TRƯỜNG. Đây là một số thiếu nhi bị Việt Cộng ép ra chiến trường. Nhưng em nầy phần nhiều không được huấn luyện gì cả về quân sự. Em Nguyễn Văn Đức, 14 tuổi bị Việt Cộng cưỡng ép đầu quân mới có một tuần lễ. Một Sĩ Quan thuộc Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh đang thăm hỏi em. Chiến sĩ của Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh không ngưng truy kích địch qua những vùng rừng rậm, sình lầy. Vị Tư Lệnh Sư Đoàn 21 Bộ Binh đích thân điều khiển cuộc hành quân đánh bại Tiểu Đoàn U-Minh Việt Cộng. KẾT QUẢ: ĐỊCH: 118 Việt Cộng chết, 68 Việt Cộng bị bắt TỊCH THU: – 2 Trung liên BAR – 2500 đạn súng trường Nga – 35 Súng trường Nga – 1000 đạn Tiểu liên Tiếp Khắc – 4 Tiểu liên Thompson – 800 đạn Thompson – 11 Súng trường đủ loại – 12 thùng đạn Trung Liên – 285 Lựu đạn – 41 thùng đạn 81 ly – Một số quân trang, quân dụng và âu dược. SP-1464 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE VIET CONG U MINH 2 BATTALION DEFEATED AGAIN THE VIET CONG FORCE CHILDREN AGED 14-15 TO FIGHT FOR THEM. On 24-25 September 1966 the Republic of Vietnam's 21st Infantry Division defeated the Viet Cong U Minh 2 Battalion and a unit of the Viet Cong mobile battalion at Soc Trang. The recent operation in An Xuyen and Bac Lieu provinces proved the truth: the Viet Cong have used children aged 14-15 and sent them onto the battlefield. These are some of the children forced onto the battlefield by the Viet Cong. But most of these boys have had no military training at all. Nguyen Van Duc, 14 years old, forcibly conscripted by the Viet Cong only one week ago. An officer of the 21st Infantry Division is questioning him kindly. Soldiers of the 21st Infantry Division relentlessly pursue the enemy through dense jungle and swamp. The commander of the 21st Infantry Division personally directs the operation that defeated the Viet Cong U Minh Battalion. RESULT: ENEMY: 118 Viet Cong killed, 68 Viet Cong captured SEIZED: – 2 BAR light machine guns – 2,500 rounds of Russian rifle ammunition – 35 Russian rifles – 1,000 rounds of Czech submachine-gun ammunition – 4 Thompson submachine guns – 800 rounds of Thompson ammunition – 11 rifles of various kinds – 12 boxes of light machine-gun ammunition – 285 grenades – 41 boxes of 81 mm ammunition – A quantity of uniforms, equipment and medical supplies. SP-1464 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, not verified by a fluent reader. 'Tiếp Khắc' is rendered 'Czech' (as in Czech-made submachine guns); 'đang thăm hỏi' is rendered 'questioning ... kindly' and could also be 'visiting' or 'asking after'. [← The Truth About Chieu Hoi in Go Cong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/truth-about-chieu-hoi-go-cong-1965-1969/) [Hoạt động của những bác sĩ Hoa Kỳ tại Bình Long (Activities of the American Doctors in Binh Long) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-doctors-in-binh-long-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). 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Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)