Qualla: Landing Zone Oasis https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis 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/6/k/w/landing-zone-oasis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Landing Zone Oasis https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis Landing Zone Oasis: Introduction https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis/ Photo credit Jensre, CC BY-SA 3.0. Staff Sergeant Arlen Tuttle was an engineer with the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, and he was killed on 5 November 1965. Days later his division fought the Battle of the Ia Drang. The patch of red ground the cavalry had cleared southwest of Pleiku to support that fight was given his name — LZ Tuttle — and for a while that is what it was called. Then the name changed to something a pilot could find on a map and a soldier could say without thinking about anybody. LZ Oasis outlived Tuttle's name by six years.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/w/landing-zone-oasis-wp/w6kw-landing-zone-oasis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Landing Zone Oasis: Twenty-Four Kilometres Down Highway 19 https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis/ Photo credit Unknown US Army photographer, Public domain. The base sat just south of QL-19, the road that climbs from the coast at Qui Nhơn through the An Khê and Mang Yang passes to Pleiku and then runs west to Cambodia. Oasis was twenty-four kilometres southwest of the city, out where the plateau opens up and the highway stops feeling...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/w/landing-zone-oasis-wp/w6kw-landing-zone-oasis-twenty-four-kilometres-down-highway-19.mp3 0:06 2 full Landing Zone Oasis: Built for the Ia Drang https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis/ Photo credit Unknown US Army photographer, Public domain. It was thrown up in 1965 because the 1st Cavalry Division needed somewhere forward to work from. The Ia Drang campaign that November was the first sustained collision between American and North Vietnamese regular forces, fought in the valley and on the slopes of the Chu Pong Mass...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/w/landing-zone-oasis-wp/w6kw-landing-zone-oasis-built-for-the-ia-drang.mp3 0:06 3 full Landing Zone Oasis: Task Force Walker https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis/ Photo credit Unknown US Army photographer, Public domain. The 25th Infantry Division reopened Oasis in May 1966 with Task Force Walker, and the brigade flew straight out of it into Operation Paul Revere, sweeping southwest, then west toward the massif, for the next eleven weeks. Oasis was the fixed point that operation kept returning to...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/w/landing-zone-oasis-wp/w6kw-landing-zone-oasis-task-force-walker.mp3 0:06 4 full Landing Zone Oasis: In the Wire https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis/ Photo credit Unknown US Army photographer, Public domain. On 11 May 1969 an estimated six hundred North Vietnamese soldiers attacked Oasis. Eleven Americans were killed, three were taken prisoner, and roughly a hundred of the attackers died — the sort of arithmetic that gets written down as a successful defence and lived through as some...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/w/landing-zone-oasis-wp/w6kw-landing-zone-oasis-in-the-wire.mp3 0:06 5 full Landing Zone Oasis: The Guns Go Home https://qualla.com/landing-zone-oasis/ Photo credit Unknown US Army photographer, Public domain. The 7th Battalion, 15th Artillery was still firing from Oasis in October 1971, and by the end of that year the Americans were gone from it. Nothing dramatic marked the closure — the guns were lifted out, the strip was left to the weather, and the war in the Highlands went on with...

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