Qualla: Battle of Đồng Hới https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/g/battle-of-ong-hoi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Đồng Hới https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi Battle of Đồng Hới: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bình Giang at Vietnamese Wikipedia., Public domain. A round had jammed in the barrel of USS Higbee's aft five-inch gun. A hang fire is a bad thing to have on a warship — the shell may cook off at any moment — so the twelve men working that mount were ordered off it and sent forward. Minutes later, a 250-kilogram bomb landed squarely on the turret they had just left and blew it open. Nobody was inside. That, in one small mercy, is the difference between the Battle of Đồng Hới as it is remembered and the disaster it very nearly was.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/g/battle-of-ong-hoi-wp/w75g-battle-of-ng-h-i-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Đồng Hới: Four Ships on the Gun Line https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bình Giang at Vietnamese Wikipedia., Public domain. The spring of 1972 brought the largest North Vietnamese offensive of the war, and American strategy on the coast was straightforward: stand offshore and shell anything moving south along the coast highway toward the fighting in Quảng Trị. On 19 April four ships were working that ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/g/battle-of-ong-hoi-wp/w75g-battle-of-ng-h-i-four-ships-on-the-gun-line.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Đồng Hới: The Airfield Nobody Was Watching https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bình Giang at Vietnamese Wikipedia., Public domain. Some forty-five kilometres inland, in Bố Trạch district, the Vietnam People's Air Force had built a strip called Khe Gát in seven months during 1969 and then made almost no use of it. It sat there for three years, an unremarkable line scraped into a valley. On the morning of 19 A...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/g/battle-of-ong-hoi-wp/w75g-battle-of-ng-h-i-the-airfield-nobody-was-watching.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Đồng Hới: Seventeen Hundred Hours https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bình Giang at Vietnamese Wikipedia., Public domain. Sterett's radar picked up three contacts inbound at about five in the afternoon. One MiG made two attack runs on Higbee and missed both times before coming round a third time and putting a BETAB-250 bomb into the destroyer's aft gun mount — the one the crew had just abandoned. Th...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/g/battle-of-ong-hoi-wp/w75g-battle-of-ng-h-i-seventeen-hundred-hours.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Đồng Hới: Contacts in the Dark https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bình Giang at Vietnamese Wikipedia., Public domain. By six o'clock the task force was withdrawing to the northeast, and Sterett's operators found two surface contacts shadowing them. After half an hour of watching, she opened up with her five-inch gun and reported two North Vietnamese P-6 torpedo boats destroyed. North Vietnamese ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/5/g/battle-of-ong-hoi-wp/w75g-battle-of-ng-h-i-contacts-in-the-dark.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Đồng Hới: The Reckoning https://qualla.com/battle-of-ong-hoi/ Photo credit The original uploader was Bình Giang at Vietnamese Wikipedia., Public domain. The retaliation was immediate and heavy: bombardment of Vinh and Đồng Hới on 19 and 20 April, then a strike by thirty-three aircraft against Khe Gát on 22 April. The Americans claimed one MiG destroyed on the ground and another damaged; the Vietnamese recorded one damaged. Materi...

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