The door gunner in a UH-1B Huey gunship fires on Vietcong positions during a search-and-destroy mission in the Mekong Delta, January 23, 1968.Bettmann/Getty Images US commandos fought a covert war in ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Rick Brittingham doesn't remember seeing the enemy soldiers, but he does remember the sound of the Huey's rotors and the rattle of the M-60 machine gun he fired from the helicopter's ...

Dennis Louth was in combat near Pleiku, South Vietnam, for 48 consecutive days in 1967, but one day stands out. That was the day the gunner had to fly a Huey helicopter back to its base under fire ...

This was an interview with Victor 'Vic' Smith, a Vietnam veteran who served with the RAAF No. 9 Squadron as a huey door gunner. Despite being a dangerous job, vets who served as door gunners have been ...

If there’s one combat billet that gets crapped all over by Hollywood, it’s the modern helicopter door gunner. Armed with a muscular M60 7.62mm machine gun and perched high above the kill zone, the ...