Meanwhile, we already have the first Chicago-style controversy surrounding the new Pope's fandom between the Cubs & White Sox... 🔊
(original 📹 via @Josh_Frydman & @WGNNews)
Incredible footage shows door gunners in action during the Vietnam War.
The door gunner was responsible for operating and maintaining manually directed armaments aboard the helicopter.
For most of the Vietnam War, the primary weapon of the door gunner was a medium machine gun.
The door gunner position was not particularly popular due to the exposed nature of manning a machine gun in the open door of a helicopter.
According to popular legend, the life expectancy of a door gunner on a Vietnam-era Huey gunship was said to be only 5 minutes.
Although this figure was clearly exaggerated, it highlights the significant hazards associated with this particular role.
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Portrait of NGC 1055
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe spans over 100,000 light-years, a little larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. The colorful, spiky stars decorating this cosmic portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way. But the telltale pinkish star forming regions are scattered through winding dust lanes along the distant galaxy's thin disk. With a smattering of even more distant background galaxies, the deep image also reveals a boxy halo that extends far above and below the central bulge and disk of NGC 1055. The halo itself is laced with faint, narrow structures, and could represent the mixed and spread out debris from a satellite galaxy disrupted by the larger spiral some 10 billion years ago.
Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Doctor