Qualla: Duc Lap Camp https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Duc Lap Camp https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp Duc Lap Camp: Introduction https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp/ Hill 722 is a number on a topographic map. It sits in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, 67 kilometers southwest of Buon Ma Thuot and 14 kilometers from the Cambodian border, in a landscape that is now jungle again and gives no immediate sign of what happened there. In August 1968, that forested hillside became a battlefield. For three days, a North Vietnamese regiment tried to overrun the small compound that the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group had built there two years earlier. The base held. More than 360 people died. Today, the jungle has taken back the ground.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/h/w/duc-lap-camp-wp/w6hw-duc-lap-camp-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Duc Lap Camp: Building the Outpost https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp/ The 5th Special Forces Group's Detachment A-239 established the base at Duc Lap in October 1966, choosing the site for its proximity to known North Vietnamese infiltration routes through the highland borderlands. The location — near where the triple border of Vietnam, Cambodia, a...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/h/w/duc-lap-camp-wp/w6hw-duc-lap-camp-building-the-outpost.mp3 0:06 2 full Duc Lap Camp: Three Days in August https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp/ On the night of August 23, 1968, the People's Army of Vietnam's 95C Regiment moved against Duc Lap. The assault that followed lasted until August 25 — three days of fighting in the forested hills around the camp, with artillery, mortars, and close infantry combat in terrain that ...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/h/w/duc-lap-camp-wp/w6hw-duc-lap-camp-three-days-in-august.mp3 0:06 3 full Duc Lap Camp: The Second Siege https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp/ Duc Lap did not return to quiet after August 1968. In October 1969, PAVN forces besieged both Duc Lap and the nearby Bu Prang Camp simultaneously — a coordinated pressure across the highland border zone intended to stretch ARVN and U.S. response capacity. The siege at Duc Lap was...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/h/w/duc-lap-camp-wp/w6hw-duc-lap-camp-the-second-siege.mp3 0:06 4 full Duc Lap Camp: What the Jungle Reclaimed https://qualla.com/duc-lap-camp/ The camp no longer exists as a recognizable structure. The jungle has grown back over the cleared ground, the bunkers, the perimeter wire. Hill 722 is a contour line on a map, a set of coordinates at 12.43°N, 107.67°E, a site that appears in military histories and the memoirs of ...

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