Qualla: Operation Cuu Long 44-02 https://qualla.com/operation-cuu-long-44-02 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Operation Cuu Long 44-02 https://qualla.com/operation-cuu-long-44-02 Operation Cuu Long 44-02: Introduction https://qualla.com/operation-cuu-long-44-02/ One hundred and fifty metres is not far. It is the distance the lead vehicle of a South Vietnamese cavalry column covered on 16 January 1971 after enemy fire set it alight on a Cambodian mountain road. The commander kept it rolling and kept his machine gun firing, because a stopped vehicle would have corked the whole column inside the kill zone. Hit three times and burning, the carrier ran those hundred and fifty metres and then blew apart, killing its crew. Behind it, the rest of the squadron drove clear. That is the shape of Operation Cuu Long 44-02 in miniature: a short, violent effort to keep a road open, paid for in specific lives on a specific afternoon.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/f/p/operation-cuu-long-44-02-wp/w3fp-operation-cuu-long-44-02-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Operation Cuu Long 44-02: The Road That Fed a Country https://qualla.com/operation-cuu-long-44-02/ Cambodia's Route 4 runs roughly 230 kilometres from Phnom Penh southwest to Sihanoukville, and it was built in the 1950s for exactly one reason: to tie a landlocked capital to a deep-water port. Cut it and the capital starves slowly. In September 1970, Khmer Rouge forces together...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/f/p/operation-cuu-long-44-02-wp/w3fp-operation-cuu-long-44-02-two-columns-and-a-pass.mp3 0:06 3 full Operation Cuu Long 44-02: Sixteen January https://qualla.com/operation-cuu-long-44-02/ The ambushes came in the south. North of Hà Tiên the 16th Armored Cavalry ran into prepared positions and did the counterintuitive thing, charging straight into them rather than stalling under fire. Days later the 12th Armored Cavalry met a better-laid trap: destroy the first veh...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/f/p/operation-cuu-long-44-02-wp/w3fp-operation-cuu-long-44-02-sixteen-january.mp3 0:06 4 full Operation Cuu Long 44-02: What the Road Could Not Hold https://qualla.com/operation-cuu-long-44-02/ On 17 January, FANK troops with Vietnamese Marine Corps support fought their way to the outskirts of the Pich Nil Pass and took it, while the armour secured Route 4 as far north as Route 18. The Vietnamese stayed long enough to help the Cambodians build strongpoints along the reo...

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