Qualla: Siege of Đắk Đoa https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Siege of Đắk Đoa https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa Siege of Đắk Đoa: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa/ The garrison's radio went dead at about four in the morning. Some time afterwards, French walkie-talkies scanning the frequencies around Đắk Đoa picked up a man whistling La Marseillaise, somewhere in the smoke of a post that no longer existed. Nobody ever identified him, and nothing further was heard. It is the last trace of the garrison, and the detail everyone who writes about this siege ends up returning to.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/siege-of-ak-oa-wp/w6kz-siege-of-k-oa-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Đắk Đoa: From Korea to the Highlands https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa/ The men holding Đắk Đoa had already fought one war on the other side of Asia. The Bataillon de Corée — the French battalion that served under United Nations command in Korea — came home to the armistice of July 1953 and was sent almost immediately to Saigon. There it was expanded...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/siege-of-ak-oa-wp/w6kz-siege-of-k-oa-from-korea-to-the-highlands.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Đắk Đoa: Closing In https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa/ The Việt Minh moved against Đắk Đoa on 2 February. Three days later they blew several bridges north of Kon Tum, which made patrolling difficult and reinforcement worse. Fighter-bombers flew up from Nha Trang and strafed the approaches until nightfall, and nightfall was when the e...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/siege-of-ak-oa-wp/w6kz-siege-of-k-oa-closing-in.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Đắk Đoa: Seven Nights https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa/ The first serious assault came at midnight on 11 February. The attackers reached the barbed wire before the defenders opened up, and what saved the post was a strange collection of improvisations: a light spotter aircraft dropping flares, artillery firing on the lit ground, and G...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/siege-of-ak-oa-wp/w6kz-siege-of-k-oa-seven-nights.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Đắk Đoa: The Seventeenth https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa/ The final assault opened just before midnight on 17 February, and the opening barrage went almost too well for the attackers to have planned it. A mortar round hit the French command post and set off jerry cans of petrol. Another destroyed the generator, which killed the searchli...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/siege-of-ak-oa-wp/w6kz-siege-of-k-oa-the-seventeenth.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Đắk Đoa: What Was Left https://qualla.com/siege-of-ak-oa/ 1st Korea wanted to push out and look for survivors and was refused; the orders were to break out of Pleiku instead. One wounded prisoner made his own way back to French lines, and the Việt Minh left other badly wounded men on the road to be collected — a small mercy in a war sho...

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