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It was certainly not a cakewalk to be on duty at Yankee Station in North Vietnam. As an aviator during Rolling Thunder and other missions you had a set of bad choices:1) Fly high to avoid anti-aircraft batteries but become easy targets for Russian SAM's.2) Fly low to avoid the SAM's but be pounded by anti-aircraft batteries.3) Our radar coverage was such at the time as well that MIGs were quite hard to detect as well, and they were all flying (for the most part) in Northern Vietnam right around Yankee Station.Since the Vietnamese (and Russians) understood the overall strategy behind Rolling Thunder they could pretty accurately guess what target sets were going to be, and this load up the sites with SAM's and anti-aircraft batteries making life miserable for aviators.
It was certainly not a cakewalk to be on duty at Yankee Station in North Vietnam. As an aviator during Rolling Thunder and other missions you had a set of bad choices:
1) Fly high to avoid anti-aircraft batteries but become easy targets for Russian SAM's.
2) Fly low to avoid the SAM's but be pounded by anti-aircraft batteries.
3) Our radar coverage was such at the time as well that MIGs were quite hard to detect as well, and they were all flying (for the most part) in Northern Vietnam right around Yankee Station.
Since the Vietnamese (and Russians) understood the overall strategy behind Rolling Thunder they could pretty accurately guess what target sets were going to be, and this load up the sites with SAM's and anti-aircraft batteries making life miserable for aviators.
