Word: lolo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three helicopter gunships were reported shot down at Lolo while evacuating casualties. As one American officer said, "It became an untenable position...
According to field dispatches and military sources, almost 2000 South Vietnamese soldiers pulled out of Fire Base Lolo Monday after three days of fighting in the area. Heavy North Vietnamese fire made it impossible for U. S. helicopters to fly in supplies...
...North Vietnamese radio reported that 17 helicopters had been shot down around Lolo, which they said was seized in an attack that "wiped out" one 600-man South Vietnamese battalion and "badly mauled" other units...
After several days of relative quiet, fighting has began again near Sepone on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U.S. sources reported heavy North Vietnamese artillery and tank attacks at Lolo, a fire support base nine miles southeast of Sepone. One American helicopter was reported shot down, and several others hit. Helicopter crewmen said that they were forced by heavy ground fire to drop supplies while hovering five or six feet above the base...