Qualla: Battle of Walong https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/b/battle-of-walong-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Walong https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong Battle of Walong: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong/ Photo credit Palash Dutta, FAL. At three in the morning on October 23, 1962, Lieutenant Bikram Singh Rathore of the 6th Kumaon Regiment fired a Very Light flare into the darkness above a hanging bridge over Namti Nullah, five kilometers from the town of Walong. He had removed the last planks of the bridge. Below, the first Chinese soldier had already stepped onto the gap and fallen into the ravine. Behind him, the soldiers of the PLA's 153rd Regiment milled in confusion on a narrow path, exposed. Indian machine guns and mortars, sighted precisely on that chokepoint, opened fire. About 200 Chinese troops were killed or wounded. Nine Indians died. It was a textbook ambush, and it was only the opening act.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/b/battle-of-walong-wp/wjhb-battle-of-walong-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Walong: A Line Drawn in 1914 https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong/ Photo credit Palash Dutta, FAL. The Sino-Indian War of 1962 grew from a border dispute with roots in the colonial era. The McMahon Line, drawn in 1914 during the Simla Convention, established the boundary between British India and Tibet. China never recognized it. When Chinese forces began advancing into Indian...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/b/battle-of-walong-wp/wjhb-battle-of-walong-a-line-drawn-in-1914.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Walong: Four Weeks of Fighting https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong/ Photo credit Palash Dutta, FAL. The battle began on October 21, when the Chinese 153rd Infantry Regiment attacked India's Kibithu Post, 40 kilometers north of Walong. Midnight machine gun fire and mortar bombardment preceded infantry assaults by over 3,000 soldiers. Naik Bahadur Singh took over a light machine ...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/b/battle-of-walong-wp/wjhb-battle-of-walong-four-weeks-of-fighting.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Walong: The Last Stand on West Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong/ Photo credit Palash Dutta, FAL. On November 14, the 6th Kumaon did something no other Indian unit managed in the entire war: they attacked. Without artillery or air support, they captured Chinese positions in the Walong sector. But ammunition was running low and casualties mounting. Two days later, the PLA's 13...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/b/battle-of-walong-wp/wjhb-battle-of-walong-the-last-stand-on-west-ridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Walong: Helmets on the Mountain https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong/ Photo credit शंतनू, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1986, twenty-four years after the battle, a patrol from the 6th Assam Regiment climbed to West Ridge and found skeletal remains still lying among helmets, LMG magazines, water bottles, spent ammunition, and a pair of binoculars that likely belonged to Lieutenant Bikram Singh. ...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/b/battle-of-walong-wp/wjhb-battle-of-walong-helmets-on-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Walong: What the Mountain Remembers https://qualla.com/battle-of-walong/ Photo credit Palash Dutta, FAL. China declared a unilateral ceasefire on November 21, 1962, five days after the fall of West Ridge. Even PLA researchers from the Academy of Military Science later acknowledged that the Indian forces at Walong displayed "significantly and notably higher morale and will to resist"...

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