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...about to quit the place when I met a soldier from Seattle, a helicopter gunner from the 162nd Assault Copter Co. in Phu Binh. He had been in Vietnam for 17 months but had never seen Saigon--and he was only in town this time to take a flight physical for helicopter pilot school in Alabama. He thought he had passed the physical and so became quite expansive, telling me about himself and his work "up north." He was a high school drop-out before enlisting and had failed at a few endeavors before the army...
Most impressive of the Cheyenne's talents, however, is its deadly arsenal. Moving in for the kill, the two-man crew-pilot and copilot-gunner-have at their fingertips six missile launchers, a swiveling belly-turret with a 30-mm. automatic gun, and a nose turret armed with either a 40-mm. grenade-launcher or a six-barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably...
...five-minute mark, Beller sank a line-drive jumper, Kanuth swished a long set from the corner and immediately fouled out trying to steal a pass, and Royer scored on a tap-in. Now ahead by only five, Northeastern got a free throw from its irrepressible gunner, Osgood. Then Norlander darted out, stole a pass, and went the length of the court for a basket...
...great war poet, because he was writing about a different set of realities with the same kind of immediacy. He wrote then too on conventional themes, but extraordinarily well--the loneliness of the individual soldier, the bursts of sudden violence. His much anthologized "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," ends, "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...could be said of him that he knew all about death before he died. Out of this knowledge came the most quoted poem of World War II, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner...