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...real battle-and the most precipitous retreat-involved the elite 1st ARVN Division. They had been assigned to man fire bases named Sophia, Lolo, Liz and A Luoi, and Landing Zone Brown, all overlooking the invasion route on Highway 9. All were abandoned after undergoing continued shelling and massed attacks by the North Vietnamese. The ARVN troops destroyed their own artillery and fought their way through the jungle until helicopters could reach them (see following story...
South Vietnamese troops suffered their heaviest casualties in a single day of battle since the Laotian invasion began. One hundred thirty men were killed or wounded in jungle fighting two miles from Firebase Lolo...
...last four days Saigon forces have abandoned two key positions, Firebase Lolo and Firebase A Loui, and have retreated 15 miles toward the South Vietnamese border...
...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...
Some of the troops of the South Vietnamese 1st Division abandoning Lolo were ordered to relocate at Landing Zone Brown, a base five miles to the east which the South Vietnamese had planned to use for raids southward against a branch of the Ho Chi Minh trail...