---
title: 行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-moving-vehicles-target-leaflet-8526-1951/
description: A Chinese-language leaflet for Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers in Korea.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Line drawing of a wrecked truck and a dead driver after an air attack. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# 行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese

A Chinese-language leaflet for Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers in Korea. The front is a line drawing of a wrecked truck and a dead driver under strafing aircraft, headed 'Moving military vehicles are the target of Allied bombing'; the back says dozens of vehicles and their drivers are destroyed every day, that the soldiers' position is 'hopeless day by day', and tells them to join 'the thousands of comrades' who have already crossed over and are safe and well treated. Staged harm to the reader's own unit, then a crowd of those who have already switched, is the tell for both tags.

## Text on the object

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

```
[front]
行駛的軍車是聯軍轟炸的目標
8526

[back]
行駛的軍車是好目標

行駛的軍車是好目標，每天有幾十輛軍車連同駕駛兵被聯軍毀滅。

聯合國空軍深入你們的後方，阻止你們糧食和軍火向前方輸送。

你們的情況是一天天的無望了。這就是你們應該投誠的理由之一。向你們已經過來的成千成萬的同志們看齊吧！他們在這裏不但生命安全，而且享受優待。

8526
```

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

```
[front]
Moving military vehicles are the target of Allied bombing
8526

[back]
Moving military vehicles are good targets

Moving military vehicles are good targets. Every day dozens of military vehicles, together with their drivers, are destroyed by Allied forces.

The United Nations air force penetrates deep into your rear and stops your food and ammunition from being carried to the front.

Your situation is hopeless day by day. This is one of the reasons you should surrender. Follow the example of the thousands upon thousands of comrades who have already come over to us. Here they are not only safe in life but also enjoy good treatment.

8526
```

Front and back both read from the Commons scans; only the front is hosted. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← 영용한 인민군장병들이여! (Heroic Soldiers of the People's Army!): North Korean Korean War poster, charge on Busan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kpa-charge-on-busan-poster-1951/) [You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son (voting poster sheet for the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-are-a-filipino-my-dear-son-1951/)

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