January 2, 201214 yr From Air Force Magazine, January 2012 [excerpt] Encounters in the Tonkin Gulf By John T. Correll A fateful decision was based on reports of two attacks, one of which did not happen. It was late for a presidential address, almost midnight on Aug. 4, 1964, but the situation was dire. Since midmorning, the Pentagon and the White House had been following reports of a battle in which North Vietnamese gunboats attacked two US destroyers, USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy, in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of North Vietnam.
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