LE VAN TAM - Communist Propagnada Poster - 1945 - French Indochina Vietnam War For Sale

LE VAN TAM - Communist Propagnada Poster - 1945 - French Indochina Vietnam War
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LE VAN TAM - Communist Propagnada Poster - 1945 - French Indochina Vietnam War:
$501.50

The Story of Le Van Tam

Le Van Tam is the name of a heroic teenager during the FrenchIndochina War of Vietnam with the remarkable achievement of committing suicideto destroy a French arsenal. After the war, Le Van Tam\'s image is considered arevolutionary hero symbol, mentioned to this day in textbooks for children tolearn the example of a national heroic teenager, having sacrificed himself forthe great cause of national liberation.

“In a series of articles in the liberated Saigonnewspaper , researcher Tran Trong Tan cited contemporary sources affirming thatLe Van Tam was a real character. With the historical document of Saigon - ChoLon - Gia Dinh resistance war (1945-1975) of Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House(published in 1994) and articles archived from the end of 1945, we can confirm: Thi Thi ammunition storage was carried out twice, the first on October 17,1945 and the second on January 1, 1946. The Thi Nghe ammunition mine minesbattle by workers of the Cho Quan lamp factory mentioned above is: secondmatch. The first match on October 17, 1945 with \"live torch Le VanTam\" is real.”

The story of Le Van Tam is often told that a young boy whosold roasted peanuts, though young, joined the resistance forces against theFrench . After careful scouting, the boy managed to get into the French gasdepot in Thi Nghe. There, he sprinkled gasoline all over the ammunition depotand set it on fire. The whole arsenal was destroyed and the boy followed and wassacrificed.

This story was spread widely throughout Vietnam during thewar, with the symbol \"living torch Le Van Tam\", in order to encouragethe fighting spirit of the people. This story is also included in elementarytextbooks in Vietnam. Le Van Tam\'s name has been given to a number ofelementary schools , scholarship funds, monuments, parks , cinemas, streets orother places in Vietnam .

According to journalist Nguyen Ky Nam, this is a feat ofSaigon militia performed by two suicide soldiers and a Japanese officer servingin the Vietnam resistance force on April 9, 1946. Japanese officers who used towork in the ammunition store should know the terrain of this place. He knew theFrench were not guarding the rear of the ammunition adjacent to Thi Nghe Canalso the militia could penetrate the ammunition from this side. Thanks to theguidance of Japanese officers, the two suicide soldiers entered the ammunitionvia a sewer pipe and poured it into the Thi Nghe canal and placed explosiveswith a fire conductor tied to a cigarette. When the cigarette burns out, thewire catches fire and explodes. Thanks to this way the Vietnamese suicide forcecan escape the ammunition safely. French ammunition destroyed. Then the pressin the resistance zone reported, \" There were two soldiers who wrappedthemselves in cloth and soaked in gasoline and ran into the ammunition ... Theguards became too afraid to shoot. The two men risked burning 4,000 tons ofbullets.\"

According to historian Phan Huy Le ( Hanoi NationalUniversity ), the feat of destroying French warehouses is real but the name ofthe soldier burning the warehouse is unknown. On the basis of that fact, forthe sake of information, Tran Huy Lieu , then the Minister of Propaganda andPromotion of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam , named the unknown soldier, LeVan Tam. In a press conference inFebruary 2005 in Hanoi , Mr. Phan Huy Le said: I still have a debt to Mr. TranHuy Lieu that has not been paid up to now. That was when Mr. Lieu was theMinister of Propaganda (after the August Revolution of 1945, Tran Huy Lieu wasMinister of Propaganda and Promotion), Mr. Tran Huy Lieu wrote about thecharacter Le Van Tam, a young boy. When I wrote the story of Le Van Tam, Lieudid tell me: \"Now because of propaganda, I wrote this document later. whenthe country is in peace, you are a historian.”


Rare - Hand Made Revolutionary PosterThis is an exceptionally rare, 1960\'s hand made poster, it is not laminated but covered in plastic, previous pin-holes show where it has been hung. It measures 19.5 x 15 inches. It will be sent in a protective roll to preserve this wonderful art piece.Made to be hung in secret revolutionary homes, barracks and tunnel complexes in the South, it was discovered in Bien Hoa at the home of old Female NLF Fighter. (Bien Hoa is North of Saigon and Cu Chi). I have done the best I can with the above translation from the original document. I am sure many can do much better. This piece is part of a small collection (8 different pieces) that were all made in the 1960\'s by the same person (Nguyen Thi Phan). I will list the others over the coming weeks when I have time to translate them. There is only one of each Revolutionary.The full set is;Ly Tu Trong, Vo Thi Sau, Nguyen Ba Ngoc, Le Van Tam, Nguyen Van Troi, Hoang Van Thu, Phan Dinh Giot and Tran Van On

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