Американская хитрость: как 40-мм зенитную установку развернули против «живой волны»

It was built to shoot down jets. In Vietnam it never shot down a single aircraft, so its crews pointed it at the ground instead. Camp Carroll, January 1968. North Vietnamese soldiers are crossing the Cam Lo River in boats, in daylight, toward the camp. The only weapons that can answer fast enough are five M42 Dusters, a retired twin 40mm anti-aircraft gun that the Army had pulled back out of the National Guard. This is how the trick worked, what it cost the men standing in the open turret, and what the record can and cannot prove. Would you have kept the turret open for speed of fire? Tell us in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 A sky gun that never shot down a plane 0:23 24 January 1968: Camp Carroll 2:13 A retired gun goes to Vietnam 5:27 The trick: barrels down 8:10 The price of the open turret 9:53 Back at Camp Carroll 12:27 What the record proves 13:09 The answer Real film and photos: U.S. National Archives (public domain), USMC History Division, Robert L. Drieslein Collection (CC BY 2.0), Wikimedia Commons (full list in the pinned comment), each labelled on screen. No film of the Camp Carroll fight exists; those scenes are AI-generated reconstructions. Sources: U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery history and bulletin; USMC, U.S. Marines in Vietnam 1968. Music: original score made with AI (Suno). #VietnamWar #M42Duster #MilitaryHistory