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Mock-up of a XM-2 people sniffer on a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter. People sniffer was the field name for a series of U.S. Army issued "personnel detectors" used during the Vietnam War. The purpose was to detect enemy soldiers in hidden positions, which were often employed in the jungle combat conditions of Vietnam.
It was SPI's first contemporary game, set in what was at the time the still on-going Vietnam War, as well as the first ever wargame focused on squad-level combat. [1] By 1974, after several rival game companies published tactical-level games with better rules, SPI revised, updated and republished several of their older games.
Vietnam: 1965–1975 is a complex military and political board wargame that simulates the last decade of the Vietnam War.Published by Victory Games in 1984 less than a decade after the end of the war, the game faced criticism from some American observers for capitalizing on a topic that was still painful to many Americans.
America at war: Facts about WWI, WWII and Vietnam. America has been involved in a war for a total of 222 out of 229 years since 1776. That means since its founding, the nation has been at war 93% ...
The March on the Pentagon, 21 October 1967, an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. During the course of the war a large segment of Americans became opposed to U.S. involvement. In January 1967, only 32% of Americans thought the US had made a mistake in sending troops. [222]
In “ Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” a six-part docuseries debuting Friday on Apple TV+, Broyles recounts how he was so scared in his first firefight that he lost his voice and had to ...
NAM-1975 [a] is a war shooting gallery arcade video game developed and originally published by SNK on April 26, 1990. [1] It was one of the launch titles for both the Neo Geo MVS (arcade) and Neo Geo AES (home) platforms, in addition to being the only title in the system that does not feature the Neo Geo boot screen in its attract mode, as well as one of the pack-in games for the AES.
Grunt, subtitled "The Game of Tactical Level Combat in Vietnam", is a tactical level board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1971, set in the Vietnam War. It was the first board wargame to focus on squad level combat, and the second to simulate parts of the Vietnam War, which was still ongoing at the time this game ...