Qualla: Operation Lamar Plain https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/t/p/operation-lamar-plain-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Operation Lamar Plain https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain Operation Lamar Plain: Introduction https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. The daily log of Operation Lamar Plain reads like a metronome of violence: an LOH engages two PAVN, killing one. A company-sized ambush erupts and nine Americans die. A reconnaissance team finds graves. Artillery is called in on sixty soldiers seen in the open. Then more graves. The summer of 1969 in Quảng Tín Province was not the war of dramatic pitched battles — it was the war of patrol-by-patrol attrition that defined Vietnam's most exhausting phase, and Lamar Plain captured that reality in full.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/t/p/operation-lamar-plain-wp/w6tp-operation-lamar-plain-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Operation Lamar Plain: A Brigade Moves South https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. In May 1969, the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division — the legendary Screaming Eagles — was pulled from their normal operational area near Phu Bai and placed under the control of the 23rd Infantry Division, the Americal, with orders to relieve enemy pressure on Tam Kỳ, the...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/t/p/operation-lamar-plain-wp/w6tp-operation-lamar-plain-a-brigade-moves-south.mp3 0:06 2 full Operation Lamar Plain: The Shape of the Fighting https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. For most of the ninety-day operation, the fighting came in fragments. An LOH crew spots movement and calls in artillery. A platoon walks into a bunker line and trades fire until dark. A B-52 Arc Light strike shakes the jungle at 4 a.m., and the troops air-assault in at first ligh...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/t/p/operation-lamar-plain-wp/w6tp-operation-lamar-plain-the-shape-of-the-fighting.mp3 0:06 3 full Operation Lamar Plain: Small Things Found, Small Things Lost https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. Between the firefights were the finds: base camps built into ravines, hospital complexes with graves alongside, bunker systems that took days to fully search. On 18 July, Company B of the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry discovered a base and hospital complex with fifteen graves nea...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/t/p/operation-lamar-plain-wp/w6tp-operation-lamar-plain-small-things-found-small-things-lost.mp3 0:06 4 full Operation Lamar Plain: The Final Count https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. The operation ended on 14 August 1969. By the official accounting, 116 Americans were killed and one was missing. The PAVN and VC lost 524 killed and 21 captured, along with 256 individual weapons and 62 crew-served weapons. What those numbers cannot convey is the weight of a su...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/t/p/operation-lamar-plain-wp/w6tp-operation-lamar-plain-the-final-count.mp3 0:06 5 full Operation Lamar Plain: The Ground Now https://qualla.com/operation-lamar-plain/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. The river valleys of what is now Quảng Nam Province have long since returned to agriculture and daily life. The Song Than and Song Vang river valleys that gave the operation's final phase its name are rice-farming country, mountain ridgelines shadowed by the Trường Sơn range to t...

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