Looking rearward through the open ramp of a transport helicopter over a Vietnamese river. The pintle-mounted machine gun in the foreground marks the ramp gunner's position, covering the aircraft's blind spot on approach to and departure from a landing zone. Below, several hundred boats are moored around a floating village, with a long bridge crossing the river beyond - a reminder that in much of South Vietnam the waterways, not the roads, carried daily life. Project: 219827