 Shortly afterwards, Hmong units recaptured the village.Toward the end of 1967, US controllers at Lima Site 85 directed F-4, F-105 and A-1 fighter-bombers based in Thailand and South Vietnam in air strikes against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao formations that were massing around the US facility at Phou Pha Thi.A-26 Invaders were called in for night missions, targeting movements of the enemy ground troops on Route 6 and Route 19.