The Dark Life of Vietnam Door Gunner
If you look at old footage of Vietnam, you’ll see the doors of the Huey wide open and a soldier tightly holding a machine gun. They looked calm and collected, but you can see in their eyes that these men had been through the horrors of war. Today, you’re going to see just how dangerous their job in Vietnam really was, and why they still had to do it no matter what.
Chapters:
00:00 – Calm faces, hidden fear
02:50 – The war made for helicopters
04:01 – Flying into ambush
05:27 – Birth of the door gunner
13:29 – The price before the Cobra
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Fun fact some of the gunners would shoot innocent people & fisherman for target practice.
Crazy what the United States of Israel did and is doing to its people and people from opposite sides of the world…SHAME
My uncle was not a door gunner believe it or not.
Also didn’t help that the Vietnamese had ZSU-57-2s, which even with a single shell would annihilate the helis
11:42 they had so much adrenaline they probably didn’t feel a thing
Why didn’t they have armor?
Acho q terrível era a vida dos camponeses lá em baixo sendo queimados vivos pelos terroristas americanos mas eu só acho kkk
I was door gunner on Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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I thought Mel Gibson in We Were Soldiers did a good job of showing the Hueys and how those helicopters operated in early Vietnam.
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Anyone who runs is a VC. Anyone who stands still is a well disciplined VC
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Thank you Vietnam veterans!!!
I know two men who were door gunners. The first is my friend's dad. He has a few screws loose. He has never talked about what he saw or did.
The 2nd was an acquaintance of my dad's. He was also a bit crazy and self destructive. He openly talked about shit he saw and did. From strafing women and children villagers suspected of housing the VC, to bringing vietnamese people in the chopper to interrogate and then throwing them out of the chopper from way up in the air.
And at the end USA have lost this war
Apocalypse Now redux, Woman and children first
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Wer hat den Krieg begonnen , worum ging es ??
Wieviel vietnamesische Zivilisten wurden getötet , vergiftet , zerbombt und wieviel Ami,s ??? Waren alles Vietcongs ???
Weil Nordvietnam sich den Süden einverleiben wollte ??
My brother was a Gunner and told me he came home because of a great pilot
my grandpa was a door gunner for the hal 3 seawolves and never wants to talk about it
Being my elementary teachers Dad simlulator
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un narrateur comme une IA….. belles images mais diction nulle!
You see them firing from their helicopter without knowing where they are aiming for one of the most absurd wars😢
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Anyone who runs is a V.C. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined V.C.
A Door gunner went to my gym, and still goes everyday. Was shot a total of 8 times serving in Vietnam, and suffers from seizures but it doesn’t stop him from putting in the work.
@11:45 shout out to that Gary guy, literally lived peak male fantasy bleeding out saving your buddy’s lives with an m60 fueled by pure American flavored vitriol🫡