I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History

Leading Aircraftman Noel Ervin Shipp: The EMU Door Gunner


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31-JULY-1969. While serving as a Door Gunner on an American Crewed UH-1C Iroquois Helicopter Gunship as part of the Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight Vietnam, attached to the 135th Assault Helicopter Company, US Army, as part of the Experimental Military Unit (EMU), Leading Aircraftman Noel Ervin Shipp was killed in action while providing gunfire to support the evacuation of troops on the ground and was observed to be continuing to fire even as the helicopter he was in plummeted to the ground



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I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military HistoryBy Ross Manuel