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On the Yankee Station is a short story collection by William Boyd. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981; this collection was published later that same year, and includes two stories featuring Morgan Leafy, the anti-hero of the novel.
- William Boyd
- 1981
- Carrier Operations
- Surface-To-Air Missile Threat
- U.S. Bombing Campaigns
- Unheralded But Vital
- Other Players
Seventh Fleet maintained Task Force 77, with aircraft carriers cycling through the western Pacific. Two operating areas were established: Dixie Station off South Vietnam and Yankee Station farther north. Typically, newly arrived ships and air wings broke into combat with missions over the south, where the threat level was far less than up north. U....
As North Vietnam’s defenses strengthened, so did the need for U.S. countermeasures. Throughout the war, Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) received a disproportionate share of public attention in the United States; in fact, about 85 percent of combat losses were the result of antiaircraft fire. But the supersonic SA-2 Guideline missile ...
When President Johnson called a bombing halt in 1968, the overall U.S. fighter kill-loss ratio was barely 2:1. But contrary to the Air Force, the Navy established a fighter weapons school at San Diego, graduating its first class in 1969. By the end of the contest in January 1973, the naval fighter exchange rate was more than 8:1.7 North Vietnam’s a...
Carrier operations could not have been conducted as they were without in-flight refueling. Rear Admiral James D. “Jig Dog” Ramage said, “Tanker fuel is the most expensive because you pay for it twice but when you need it, you really need it!” Dedicated tankers were the province of Douglas KA-3 Skywarriors, big twin-engine types from master wingsmit...
A perennial player in “The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club” was Navy Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 7, the dedicated air-sea rescue unit flying Kaman UH-2s, Boeing-Vertol UH-46 Sea Knights, and Sikorsky HH-3 Sea Kings. Between 1967 and 1973, the HC-7 “Big Mothers” cycled detachments through a variety of carriers and surface ships, rescuing 149 peop...
Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships operated in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War.
11 de mar. de 2013 · On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War over Vietnam. John B. Nichols. Naval Institute Press, Mar 11, 2013 - History - 244 pages. Combining vivid personal narrative with historical and operational...
In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimaets the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his maintenance crew. With droll humor and rare compassion, Boyd’s enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction’s finest storytellers.
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On the Yankee station by Boyd, William, 1952-Publication date 1988 Publisher London : Penguin Books Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor ...
1 de ene. de 1981 · On the Yankee Station is what happens to a bully when someone hates them. The setting in Vietnam on an aircraft carrier and the injustice of a pilots fixation on an innocent mechanic comes back to bite him.
