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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 ...
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 ...
South Vietnam, Phước Long Province: Door gunner on UH-1B #63-038557 that crashed under heavy fire while making an emergency troop insertion into the area of the Đồng Xoài Special Forces Camp [75] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] June 10: Hall, Walter L: 1st Lieutenant: US Army: 118th Aviation Company, 145th Aviation Battalion
Journalist David Halberstam paid tribute to Burrows in the 1997 book Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina: [18] I must mention Larry Burrows in particular. To us younger men who had not yet earned reputations, he was a sainted figure. He was a truly beautiful man, modest, graceful, a star who never behaved like one.
Their names are now on the same panel of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., he said. Private Bruno Orig, from Honolulu, Hawaii, saw several fellow soldiers wounded by a fierce attack on ...
South Vietnam, Danang: Door gunner on UH-1H #69-15184 that crashed into Danang Harbour [144] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] December 12: Duckett, Thomas A: 1st Lieutenant: USAF: 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron: Operation Steel Tiger: Laos, Savannakhet Province: Pilot of O-2A #67-21428 that crashed on an evening forward air control ...
In South Vietnam he was assigned to the 161st Assault Helicopter Company (later reorganized as the 123rd Aviation Battalion) with the rank of Specialist Four. Serving as a door-gunner on an OH-23 Raven observation helicopter, his crew chief was Specialist Four Glenn Andreotta and his pilot was Warrant Officer One Hugh Thompson Jr.
The body of John Lee Peppard, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam, was found east of Interstate 95 in Jupiter on Jan. 31, 1988, about 2 miles north of the Indiantown Road interchange.