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