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The door gunner position was not a particularly popular one, due to the exposed position of manning a machine gun in the open door of a helicopter. According to popular legend, the door gunner on a Vietnam era Huey gunship had a life span of 5 minutes. This was obviously exaggerated but displays the hazards of this particular military job at ...
The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links. There are several types of ammunition approved for use in the M60, including ball , tracer , and armor-piercing rounds.
Vietnam: Standard issue machine gun, Manufactured locally at Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). NSV: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union Vietnam: Standard issue tank-mounted machine gun. Manufactured locally at the Z111 Factory and Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). [51] [52] Replacing the DShK. KPV: Heavy machine gun: 14.5×114mm Soviet Union
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...
A variation on the M23, the XM59/M59 was modified to accept either an XM213/M213.50 caliber machine gun or an XM175 40 mm grenade launcher in addition to being able to mount the M60 machine gun. [15] XM93/XM93E1; This armament subsystem provides door mounts for long fuselage UH-1s (UH-1D/H/N) for two M134 7.62×51mm Miniguns.
By January 8, 1968, he was a private first class serving as a door gunner in the 173rd Assault Helicopter Company. On that day, near Ap Dong An, Republic of Vietnam, his helicopter was shot down and the survivors, including Wetzel, came under heavy enemy fire. Severely wounded by an explosion that nearly severed his left arm, he continued to ...
On April 8 he was serving as the door gunner aboard OH-23 helicopter 62-03813, along with crew chief Specialist Five Charles M. Dutton and pilot First Lieutenant Barry Lloyd. Viet Cong activity was reported 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) southwest of Quảng Ngãi , and their scout helicopter was ordered to accompany two gunships to that location ...
Lawrence Manley Colburn (July 6, 1949 – December 13, 2016) was a United States Army veteran who, while serving as a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War, intervened in the March 16, 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre.