... at an interesting time in the development of television. It was not the first war to happen while television existed; both World War II and the Korean War were fought in the infant stages of television. During these two conflicts, few Americans had television sets and the equipment necessary to cover a war was still much too bulky to facilitate a great deal of news coverage. By the time the ... Vietnam War escalated in the mid-1960s, television ... United States. Two well-known instances from the Tet Offensive that were shown in living rooms all across America had a devastating effect on...

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... . Dry socks were hard to come by in the early years of the war. Vietnam was know as the helicopter war. The "chopper" that was in use 1965 was the CH-46 Jolly Green Giant. This big and slow helicopter was lightly armed with a single .30 caliber machine gun in the door. A Korean war veteran, the "Jolly Green" made the infantry highly mobile and deployable ... as Rolling Thunder and Arc Light strikes. The tonnage of bombs dropped in Vietnam actually outstripped the tonnage of bombs dropped in World War II. Nonetheless, target selection was difficult against the hidden and rural, non-indust...

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... infantry on sniper missions in which the sniper had no effect on the enemy because he was untrained in such a skill. The Germans on the other hand were well aware of the effects of sniper particularly during the battle of Stalingard. The Russian Vassili Zaitsev killed nearly fifty Germans in ten days. During the Korean War the U.S. set up a school that was tasked in the mission ... of organizing a sniper school. They taught the views of the best protection against enemy snipers is a trained sniper; skills required ... of a trained sniper must be superior to those of the average infantr...

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... ground, the burlap would be white with small shreds of black. Surrounding nature is also involved in this art of hidden killers. While stalking through a wheat field the sniper may incorporate tufts of wheat into his suit. This furthers the camouflaging effect. In fact this type of camouflage works so well that one could walk within feet of a sniper laying in the prone position and have ... no idea they where there. Although camouflage is not the main piece of equipment used, the rifle would have to be. The ... tends to be the easiest part throughout a sniper's life. The more traumatic...

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