Qualla: Operation MacArthur https://qualla.com/operation-macarthur 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/s/9/operation-macarthur-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Operation MacArthur https://qualla.com/operation-macarthur Operation MacArthur: Introduction https://qualla.com/operation-macarthur/ Photo credit Public domain. Highway 14 ran north to south through the middle of the Central Highlands like a spine, connecting Pleiku to Kontum and continuing to Dak To near the Laotian border. For the US 4th Infantry Division, defending every district and provincial capital along this road was the mission. For PAVN General Hoang Minh Thao's B3 Front, cutting that road — or at minimum making it too dangerous to use — was the goal. Operation MacArthur, which began on 12 October 1967 and ran for fifteen months, was the sustained American effort to make Highway 14 hold.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/s/9/operation-macarthur-wp/w6s9-operation-macarthur-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Operation MacArthur: The B3 Front https://qualla.com/operation-macarthur/ Photo credit Public domain. General Hoang Minh Thao's command was formidable. The B3 Front controlled all main-force North Vietnamese units across Kontum, Pleiku, and Darlac provinces — a swath of the Central Highlands that encompassed some of the most contested terrain of the entire war. His principal stri...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/s/9/operation-macarthur-wp/w6s9-operation-macarthur-the-b3-front.mp3 0:06 2 full Operation MacArthur: Dak To: The November Crisis https://qualla.com/operation-macarthur/ Photo credit U.S. Army, Public domain. The early phase of Operation MacArthur produced its most intense combat at Dak To, in the far north of Kontum Province, where the fighting raged from 3 to 23 November 1967. The Battle of Dak To — the clash that came to define the operation in American memory — saw the 4th Infantr...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/s/9/operation-macarthur-wp/w6s9-operation-macarthur-the-long-middle.mp3 0:06 4 full Operation MacArthur: Deeper Into the Highlands https://qualla.com/operation-macarthur/ Photo credit Public domain. As the operation stretched into late 1968, the fight spread across a broader geographic canvas. In August, an air cavalry unit engaged a sizable North Vietnamese force twenty-six miles east-northeast of Ban Me Thuot. In October, helicopter gunships caught a PAVN unit leaving a vi...

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