BOUAM LONG - LIMA SITE 32

“In Military Region II, under Major General Vang Pao, the situation was no less tense. In essence, what the enemy had done at the real start of his dry season offensive, north of the PDJ, was to overrun most of the friendly major sites of the Lima Site crescent, including LS-57 and LS-80, and on 3 February 1971, Lima 108--a sizable airfield north of the Long Tieng complex. Heavy pressure was put against LS6--Phou Pha--to the northwest of the complex, leaving to the east only four friendly sites remaining north and northeast of the Plain of Jars: Lima Site 32, by far the strongest of the sites in the area; LS-16, northwest of LS-32; and 71 to the north, Lima Sites 50 and 50 Alpha respectively.- (Most of these were to fall, be retaken, and fall again, by the end of this report. However, Lima Site 32, the key defensive position north of the Plain of Jars, was never lost to the enemy.)”

Source: Air Operations in Northern Laos, 1 NOV 70 - 1 APR 70