Qualla: Thạnh Mỹ Massacre https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre 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/v/1/thanh-my-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Thạnh Mỹ Massacre https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre Thạnh Mỹ Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre/ Photo credit Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. 9/18/1947, Public domain. The village of Phú Thạnh was the kind of place that tried to stay alive in wartime by being useful to everyone who came through. Straddling Highway 1 about five kilometers north of Landing Zone Baldy, its residents included the families of South Vietnamese militiamen, government officials, and ordinary farmers who passed along information about guerrilla movements in the area. The Ba Ren Bridge crossed the highway just north of the village — a vital link in the supply line between LZ Baldy and Da Nang — and so the village was protected: a U.S. Marine squad lived there under the Combined Unit Pacification Program, alongside local Popular Force platoons and a Regional Force company whose mission was specifically to guard the bridge. Rumors had circulated for weeks that the Viet Cong intended to attack it. No one expected them to come for the village itself.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/1/thanh-my-massacre-wp/w6v1-th-nh-m-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Thạnh Mỹ Massacre: Before Dawn on 11 June https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre/ Photo credit Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. 9/18/1947, Public domain. In the early hours of 11 June 1970, Viet Cong forces opened with a mortar barrage and moved in under the smoke. Sappers moved through the hamlet of Thạnh Mỹ, lighting houses on fire. Where residents had taken shelter — in bunkers, in rooms, wherever families huddled together agai...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/1/thanh-my-massacre-wp/w6v1-th-nh-m-massacre-before-dawn-on-11-june.mp3 0:06 2 full Thạnh Mỹ Massacre: A Village That Chose a Side https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre/ Photo credit Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. 9/18/1947, Public domain. Phú Thạnh's vulnerability came partly from the choice its residents had made. This was a pro-government village in contested territory — a place where people had aligned themselves with Saigon and the Americans, and where the presence of military forces made that alignment visibl...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/1/thanh-my-massacre-wp/w6v1-th-nh-m-massacre-a-village-that-chose-a-side.mp3 0:06 3 full Thạnh Mỹ Massacre: The Weight of What Happened https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre/ Photo credit Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. 9/18/1947, Public domain. The 74 people who died in Thạnh Mỹ on 11 June 1970 were not soldiers. They were villagers — people whose names were not entered into military records, whose individual lives have largely disappeared from the written history of the war. Some of them were children. Their deaths hap...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/v/1/thanh-my-massacre-wp/w6v1-th-nh-m-massacre-the-weight-of-what-happened.mp3 0:06 4 full Thạnh Mỹ Massacre: Quảng Nam and the Long Shadow https://qualla.com/thanh-my-massacre/ Photo credit Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. 9/18/1947, Public domain. Quảng Nam Province carried a particular weight during the Vietnam War. The Quế Sơn District, where Thạnh Mỹ hamlet stood, saw some of the sustained fighting in the war's middle years — Operation Colorado swept these same valleys in 1966, four years before the Thạnh Mỹ attack. Mar...

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