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Encounters in the Tonkin Gulf

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From Air Force Magazine, January 2012

 

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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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