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Public Domain Stock Footage Vietnam Shotgun Rider
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Synopsis: A “lesson learned” in Vietnam was the value of adding a second door gunner, nicknamed “shotgun rider”, to the crew of the UH-1 Huey gunship helicopters. This film follows volunteers through a rigorous training program and into combat missions as a shotgun rider or second door gunner on helicopters in Vietnam... (read more)
Information: 1960s COL 29 min
Show All Vietnam War Titles Vietnam - Shotgun Rider



Soldier, candidate for helicopter door gunner school, taking physical examination, including hearing and eyesight test. Candidates take first helicopter flight. Instructions on the M-60 machine gun. Shows candidates firing the M-60 machine gun from prone position, standing position, and from a mock-up of a UH-1B helicopter. Trainees get orientation lecture, like a briefing for a combat mission, before making first firing run on gunnery range in Hawaii. Shows shotgun rider firing M-60 on gunnery range from UH-1B Huey in flight.

Army trainees doing calisthenics, push-ups, survival training in pool and in the field, and medical training. Footage of the U.S. Army Tropic Lighting Museum, Schofield Barracks, Oahu Hawaii. Candidates take R&R with dates, view of Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Waikiki Beach. Game of girls on guy's shoulder in water shoving and pushing, young men and girls relaxing (sunbathing) on the sands of Waikiki Beach, and two couples in Ford convertible driving down street in Hawaii.

Helicopter door gunners arrive in Vietnam, are issued helmets and flack jackets, given orientation on armament carried by the Huey UH-1B gunship. Briefing for armed visual reconnaissance mission. Helicopter lifts off, in flight, and providing covering fire while troops are dropped in an assault drop or landing zone.

Wounded soldier on litter being loaded into medical helicopter, Dust Off insignia and Red Cross on door of medevac Dustoff helicopter. Vietnamese civilians are remove from area by helicopter. Shows door gunner on CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Shows bullet holes in helicopter after mission. Helicopter is re-armed with rockets and M-60 ammunition. Scenes of soldiers in civilian clothes taking cycle cabs into town. Shows helicopter night mission.

Shot List:

00:02:50:04. Soldier taking physical examination, including EKG (Electrocardlogram), hearing test, eye sight tests.

00:07:56:02. Helicopter door gunner firing M-60 machine gun.

00:08:34:06. Army trainees doing calisthenics, push-ups, survival training in pool.

00:12:36:06. LS, Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Waikiki Beach.

00:12:47:00. Girls on men's shoulders at beach.

00:13:05:11. Sunbathers on Waikiki Beach, young men rubbing suntan oil on girls backs.

00:14:05:03. Two couples in Ford convertible driving down street in Hawaii.

00:14:11:03. Formation of Army trainees running.

00:14:25:05. Soldiers boarding KC-135 transport plane.

00:17:37:07. CU of helicopter door gunner.

00:19:36:13. CU of rocket pod on helicopter, rocket is fired.

00:19:41:06. CU of M-60 machine gun firing from helicopter.

00:20:17:07. Mass flight of helicopters fling in low.

00:20:31:12. CU helicopter door gunner, M-60 machine gun on bungee cord.

00:20:45:07. Medevac helicopter lands, wounded soldier placed on board.

00:22:19:04. Evacuation of Vietnamese civilians by helicopter.

00:26:02:12. U.S. Soldiers in civilian clothes riding in Cyclo Cabs or Cycle Rickshaw.

00:27:59:03. Huey UH-1B gunship firing rockets, CU M-60 machine gun firing.

00:28:27:09. Mass flight of UH-1B flying in for pickup.