Content note: Photographs on the sheet show rows of dead Viet Cong soldiers lying in grass, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Chiến thắng tại Kim-Hải của quân dân tỉnh Phước-Tuy ngày 11-11-1965 (Victory by the GVN Forces and People at Kim Hai Province of Phuoc Tuy, November 11, 1965)
A Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-943) reports a battle at Kim Hai, Phuoc Tuy province, on 11 November 1965, in a red box of figures: a Viet Cong regiment 'wiped out', 161 enemy dead on the spot, 300 more killed or wounded and carried off, and a list of captured weapons. Photographs show the provincial chief visiting a wounded soldier, captured weapons on tables, and rows of dead Viet Cong on grass. The footer reads 'Army and people united win victory over the Viet Cong'. Totals and photographs stand in for the engagement, and the sheet gives no friendly losses.
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 government
- 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) printing section. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-2-943.
Text on the object
CHIẾN THẮNG TẠI KIM-HẢI CỦA QUÂN DÂN TỈNH PHƯỚC-TUY NGÀY 11-11-1965 * TIÊU DIỆT TOÀN BỘ TRUNG ĐOÀN 5R CỤC BỘ MIỀN NAM VC. * ĐỊCH: 161 XÁC CHẾT TẠI CHỖ—300 CHẾT VÀ BỊ THƯƠNG ĐƯỢC CHÚNG MANG ĐI. * TA TỊCH THU 4 ĐẠI LIÊN, GỒM 2 ĐẠI LIÊN 30, 1 ĐẠI LIÊN TRUNG CỘNG, 1 THƯỢNG LIÊN, 1 TRUNG LIÊN, 1 TIỂU LIÊN TRUNG CỘNG 1 SÚNG TRƯỜNG NGA, 1 SÚNG PHÓNG HỎA TIỄN, 4 CARBINE, 1 SÚNG LỤC, 1 SÚNG PHÓNG LỰU, 1 MÁY PRC 10, 4 MÁY EE8 VÀ MỘT SỐ LỚN ĐẠN DƯỢC QUÂN TRANG CÙNG TÀI LIỆU QUAN TRỌNG. Trung Tá tỉnh trưởng đã đến Quân-Y-Viện Vũng-Tầu thăm người chiến sĩ đã chiến đấu anh dũng đồng thời lưu tâm đến việc săn sóc thuốc men cho anh ta. Khí giới quân ta tịch thu của Việt-Cộng. Xác chết Việt-Cộng bỏ lại chiến trường. QUÂN DÂN ĐOÀN KẾT CHIẾN THẮNG VIỆT CỘNG SP-943
VICTORY AT KIM HAI BY THE ARMY AND PEOPLE OF PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, 11-11-1965 * Wiped out the entire 5R Regiment of the Southern Regional Command [COSVN] V.C. * Enemy: 161 bodies on the spot; 300 killed and wounded carried away by them. * We seized: 4 heavy machine guns, including 2 of 30 [calibre], 1 Chinese Communist heavy machine gun, 1 upper-model machine gun, 1 light machine gun, 1 Chinese Communist submachine gun, 1 Russian rifle, 1 rocket launcher, 4 carbines, 1 pistol, 1 grenade launcher, 1 PRC 10 radio, 4 EE8 [field telephones] and a large quantity of ammunition, uniforms and important documents. The Lieutenant Colonel province chief came to the Vung Tau military hospital to visit the soldier who fought heroically, and at the same time attended to the medicine and care for him. Weapons our forces seized from the Viet Cong. Viet Cong bodies left on the battlefield. ARMY AND PEOPLE UNITED WIN VICTORY OVER THE VIET CONG SP-943
Bracketed glosses in the translation are FRAME's, for readability; the printed text has no brackets. Weapon terms are rendered literally and some Vietnamese military shorthand (e.g. 'thượng liên') is rendered by best sense.
