[Robe]

I was fortunate... was hit over Haiphong.... Made it to the gulf....punched out and spent about 4 hours in my little rubber duckie bleeding like a stuck pig..... Thank God for the USAF Golly Green crews ( I was USN BTW)

[Zhang Fei]

[I was fortunate... was hit over Haiphong.... Made it to the gulf....punched out and spent about 4 hours in my little rubber duckie bleeding like a stuck pig..... Thank God for the USAF Golly Green crews ( I was USN BTW)]

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Thank you for your service. Good that you avoided the Hanoi Hilton, or worse. Were you part of Pocket Money, the operation over Haiphong?

You have Russia to thank for your close shave. It supplied its latest fighter jets and SAM systems to North Vietnam and crews to operate some of those systems. An official Russian government website gloats:

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https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
[Throughout the war, Moscow provided Hanoi with 95 S-75 air defense missile systems, over 500 airplanes, 120 helicopters, more than 5,000 anti-aircraft guns and 2,000 tanks. In addition, more than 10,000 Soviet military specialists were dispatched to Vietnam: from missile crews, pilots and signalmen to tank crews and doctors.]

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[JadeEmperor]

Thank you for your service!