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title: Võ-Xu mồ chôn giặc Cộng! (Vo-Xu, Graveyard of the Communist Enemy!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vo-xu-mo-chon-giac-cong-1966/
description: A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-1110) reports an engagement at Vo-Xu and Duy-Can in Binh Tuy on the night of 20 March 1966.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Four photographs of dead combatants lying on the ground after the engagement, and two of captured weapons, as issued on the poster. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Võ-Xu mồ chôn giặc Cộng!, 1966 US poster: A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-1110) reports an engagement at Vo-Xu](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vo-xu-mo-chon-giac-cong-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vo-xu-mo-chon-giac-cong-1966.jpg)

# Võ-Xu mồ chôn giặc Cộng! (Vo-Xu, Graveyard of the Communist Enemy!)

A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-1110) reports an engagement at Vo-Xu and Duy-Can in Binh Tuy on the night of 20 March 1966, with photographs of dead fighters on the ground and of captured weapons. A boxed tally gives 208 Viet Cong bodies counted, 10 prisoners and a list of weapons taken. The tell is the body count and weapons inventory set beside the pictured dead as proof of victory, with a line saying the people of the province welcome it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
VÕ-XU MỒ CHÔN GIẶC CỘNG !

Tiểu Đoàn 1 Trung Đoàn 52 thuộc Sư Đoàn 10 Bộ Binh và Đại Đội 514 Địa Phương Quân đã đánh tan nhiều đơn vị thuộc Trung Đoàn 5 Việt-Cộng tại Võ-Xu và Duy-Cân (Bình-Tuy) trong đêm 20/3/1966.

KẾT QUẢ — 208 xác Việt-Cộng (đếm được chung quanh trận địa) —10 tên bị bắt sống.

TA TỊCH THU —1 Đại liên phòng không —1 súng phóng hỏa tiễn —3 trung liên Tiệp-Khắc —23 tiểu liên K.50 —6 súng trường Nga —4 Garant M.1 —4 chân đại liên phòng không có bánh xe —1 bộ máy ngắm súng đại liên —1 bàn tiếp hậu và 1 bộ chân súng cối 81 ly —370 băng tiểu liên K.50 —450 lựu đạn —8 quả đại bác 58 ly —12 quả đạn phóng hỏa tiễn và rất nhiều đạn dược, quân trang, quân dụng các loại.

Trên 200 tên Việt-Cộng bỏ xác khắp trận địa sau những loạt xung phong tấn công vào Võ-Xu.

Đây vũ khí đạn dược đủ loại mà Tiểu Đoàn 52 đã đoạt được của Việt-Cộng tại Võ-Xu, các loại vũ khí này đều do Nga-Sô, Trung-Cộng và Tiệp-Khắc chế tạo.

DÂN CHÚNG TỈNH BÌNH-TUY HÂN HOAN ĐÓN MỪNG CHIẾN THẮNG KỂ TRÊN VÀ NHIỆT LIỆT HOAN NGHINH TINH THẦN CHIẾN ĐẤU DŨNG CẢM CỦA CÁC CHIẾN SĨ THUỘC TRUNG ĐOÀN 52 BỘ BINH VÀ ĐẠI ĐỘI 514 ĐỊA PHƯƠNG QUÂN.

SP-1110
```

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

```
VO-XU, GRAVEYARD OF THE COMMUNIST ENEMY!

1st Battalion, 52nd Regiment, 10th Infantry Division, and Company 514 of the Regional Force broke up many units of the Viet Cong 5th Regiment at Vo-Xu and Duy-Can (Binh-Tuy) on the night of 20/3/1966.

RESULT — 208 Viet Cong bodies (counted around the battlefield) — 10 taken alive.

SEIZED BY US — 1 anti-aircraft heavy machine gun — 1 rocket launcher — 3 Czechoslovak light machine guns — 23 K.50 submachine guns — 6 Russian rifles — 4 Garand M1 — 4 wheeled anti-aircraft machine-gun mounts — 1 heavy machine-gun sight — 1 base plate and 1 mounting for an 81 mm mortar — 370 K.50 submachine-gun magazines — 450 grenades — 8 58 mm shells — 12 rocket rounds and very much ammunition, uniforms and equipment of all kinds.

Over 200 Viet Cong left their bodies all over the battlefield after waves of assaults on Vo-Xu.

Here are the weapons and ammunition of every kind that the 52nd Battalion captured from the Viet Cong at Vo-Xu; these weapons were all made by the Soviet Union, Communist China and Czechoslovakia.

The people of Binh-Tuy province joyfully welcome the victory described above and warmly applaud the brave fighting spirit of the soldiers of the 52nd Infantry Regiment and Company 514 of the Regional Force.

SP-1110
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering. The printed text varies between 'Tiểu Đoàn 52' and 'Trung Đoàn 52' as shown; 'đại bác 58 ly' is rendered '58 mm shells' (the printed figure is as shown on the sheet); 'Garant M.1' is rendered as printed with the usual spelling 'Garand M1'. Small-print diacritics in the tally box are faint at this resolution.

[← Việt Nam Cộng Hòa trên đường chiến thắng năm 1966 (The GVN Marched Steadily Toward Victory in 1966)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vietnam-cong-hoa-tren-duong-chien-thang-1966-poster-1966/) [Who Builds? And Who Destroys? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/who-builds-and-who-destroys-1966/)

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