 Plei Me became, up until then, the largest air support operation of the war with 696 sorties and more than 1.5 million pounds of bombs napalm, and rockets dropped on the attackers.Several U.S. planes and helicopters were damaged or shot down by intense ground fire.At Plei Me, the PAVN plan was not to overrun the camp, only to lure out II Corps' main force from Pleiku to destroy it.