Creation Date: Thursday, March 4, 1999
Last Modified: Thursday, March 4, 1999
Copyright Ray Smith, 1999
Highway QL14S
Highway 14 was the major resupply route from Pleiku to Ban Me Thout in the South Central
Highlands. This stretch of highway was bitterly contested for in several bloody engagments
with main-force NVA units. back to map
Ban Me Thout
Ban Me Thout was the capital of Darlac Province. During the 1968 Tet offensive the NVA kidnapped
and murdered several civilian missionaries from the leprosareum located here. Like Pleiku,
this city was abandoned without a fight by the ARVN at the beginning of the NVA's 1975
general offensive.
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Highway QL14S
Highway 14 was the major resupply route from Pleiku to Ban Me Thout in the south central
highlands. This stretch of highway was bitterly contested for in several bloody engagments
with main-force NVA units.
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Rubber Plantation
This huge rubber plantation was owned by the Compagnie des Hauts Plateaux Indochinois,
or The Indochina High Plateau Company, a French firm. The owners paid taxes to both the
NVA and the government of the Republic of Vietnam in order to maintain their operations.
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