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title: Toán "Ong Biển" 0906 Hoa-Kỳ với công cuộc kiến thiết tỉnh Ninh-Thuận từ 4-5-65 đến 15-8-65 (U.S. Seabee Team 0906 With Reconstruction at Ninh Thuan Province From May 4, 1965 to August 15, 1965)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-seabee-team-0906-ninh-thuan-1965/
description: A Vietnamese-language sheet lists the road, bridge, school, drainage and land-clearing work done in Ninh Thuan province by a U.S. Navy Seabee construction
section: Collection
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# Toán "Ong Biển" 0906 Hoa-Kỳ với công cuộc kiến thiết tỉnh Ninh-Thuận từ 4-5-65 đến 15-8-65 (U.S. Seabee Team 0906 With Reconstruction at Ninh Thuan Province From May 4, 1965 to August 15, 1965)

A Vietnamese-language sheet lists the road, bridge, school, drainage and land-clearing work done in Ninh Thuan province by a U.S. Navy Seabee construction team between 4 May and 15 August 1965, with metre and kilometre figures for each job. Five photographs show American and Vietnamese men building a timber bridge, and the closing banner reads 'Eternal Vietnamese-American friendship'. The list presents only completed projects and the sheet's closing banner uses a virtue phrase rather than a claim that can be checked.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
TOÁN "ONG BIỂN" 0906 HOA-KỲ VỚI CÔNG CUỘC
KIẾN THIẾT TỈNH NINH-THUẬN TỪ 4-5-65 ĐẾN 15-8-65

ỦI ĐẤT CANH TÁC: — 3 mẫu đất hoang gần Vinh-Tạc
— 1.000 thước đất tại khu gia đình binh sĩ Phan-Rang.
LÀM ĐƯỜNG: — Mỹ-Nghĩa–Vinh-Tạc ........ 1 cây số
— Khu định cư Mỹ-Nghĩa
— Quốc lộ 14 – Ấp Lương-Tri ... 2 cây số
— Quận An-Phước ........ 4 cây số
— Quận Du-Long ........ 1 cây số
LÀM CẦU: — Hai-Chữ ........ 10m X 2m
— Ba-Tháp ........ 9m X 3m
— Tân-Xuân ........ 10m X 1m
— Lương-Tri ........ 13m X 4m
— Du-Long ........ 7m X 3m
SỬA NHÀ XÂY TRƯỜNG: + Nhà Thanh niên Ninh-Thuận
— Sơn–Quét vôi
— 2 nhà vệ sinh
— Ống dẫn nước
— Đóng lưới cửa sổ
+ 50% Công tác xây trường ấp Lương-Tri
ĐỔ ĐẤT: — 550m[superscript unclear] đất đỏ tại sân vận động Phan-Rang.
— 400m[superscript unclear] đất đỏ tại địa điểm cất Bệnh Xá Quận Du-Long.
BẮT GIẤY ĐIỆN: — Tại 12 phòng Bệnh Viện Phan-Rang.
TRỢ GIÚP LÀM MƯƠNG NƯỚC: Tại khu định cư Mương-Giang, mương dài 300 thước, rộng 6 thước.

TÌNH THÂN HỮU VIỆT-MỸ BẤT DIỆT
```

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

```
U.S. "SEA MEN" TEAM 0906 AND THE CONSTRUCTION WORK IN NINH-THUAN PROVINCE FROM 4-5-65 TO 15-8-65

BULLDOZING LAND FOR FARMING: — 3 hectares [mẫu] of waste land near Vinh-Tac
— 1,000 metres of land at the Phan-Rang soldiers' family area.
ROAD BUILDING: — My-Nghia–Vinh-Tac ........ 1 km
— My-Nghia resettlement area
— Highway 14 – Luong-Tri hamlet ... 2 km
— An-Phuoc district ........ 4 km
— Du-Long district ........ 1 km
BRIDGE BUILDING: — Hai-Chu 10 m x 2 m
— Ba-Thap 9 m x 3 m
— Tan-Xuan 10 m x 1 m
— Luong-Tri 13 m x 4 m
— Du-Long 7 m x 3 m
REPAIRING HOUSES, BUILDING SCHOOLS: + Ninh-Thuan Youth House
— painting, whitewashing
— 2 latrines
— water pipes
— fitting window screens
+ 50% of the school-building work in Luong-Tri hamlet
FILLING EARTH: — 550 m[unclear] of red earth at the Phan-Rang stadium.
— 400 m[unclear] of red earth at the site of the Du-Long District dispensary.
INSTALLING ELECTRICITY: — In 12 rooms of Phan-Rang Hospital.
HELP WITH DIGGING IRRIGATION DITCHES: At the Muong-Giang resettlement area, ditch 300 metres long, 6 metres wide.

UNDYING VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering of the poster's Vietnamese. 'Ong Biển' is the Vietnamese rendering of 'Seabee' ('sea men'). 'Mẫu' is a Vietnamese land measure left untranslated in the original numeral line; 'thước' is rendered as 'metre'. The superscripts after 'm' in the earth-fill lines are not legible.

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