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
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), Saigon (series attribution), for U.S. and South Vietnamese government programmes
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- 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), Saigon (series attribution), for U.S. and South Vietnamese government programmes. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-01-681.
Text on the object
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
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.
