Two days later, at the camp at Soui Da, a radio message was received from\r Talley reporting that the team had walked into a Viet Cong battallion of\r 300-400 and that Captain Ledbetter had been wounded. He requested air\r support and evacuation. He was unable to give an exact location.\r \r Immediate help was sent, but was unable to locate the area of the battle.\r Later that day, a company and a half were ready to leave on a search when 26\r survivors, mostly wounded, began to come in, giving a grim description of\r what had occurred. Captain Ledbetter, although shot in the leg, stabbed and\r hit in the head, was last seen crawling away after the company was entirely\r overrun. Some of the survivors reported that they had hidden in the brush\r pretending to be dead and observed the Viet Cong burying bodies and lying in\r wait for the search parties they knew would come. Some said that they had\r seen Talley and Ledbetter being carried away by the Viet Cong.