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On the night of 30-31 July, the destroyer was on station in the Gulf of Tonkin when a 34A raid was launched against Hon Me Island. From two boats, South Vietnamese commandos fired machine guns and small cannon at the island's radar and military installations.
There is no doubting that fact. But what happened in the Gulf during the late hours of 4 August—and the consequential actions taken by U.S. officials in Washington—has been seemingly cloaked in confusion and mystery ever since that night.
We were headed out of the Gulf of Tonkin and well south of previous activity. Both ships picked up a surface contact at high speed on the port beam at 2134, and tracked it by both surface-search and fire-control radars.
1 kwi 2008 · On 13 December 1944, the Nashville's battle began after a suicide-plane attack, as the cruiser's Sailors struggled amid exploding ammunition to fight fires and save wounded crewmates lives. NH Article
18 cze 2019 · Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River burned for the last time 50 years ago this week. It was a small fire, under control in a half hour and fully extinguished within two hours. A firefighter told...
19 cze 2019 · To the surprise of no one who worked on the Cuyahoga, an oil slick on the river caught fire the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969. The blaze only lasted about 30 minutes, extinguished by...
22 cze 2019 · As mentioned in our podcast with Jonathan Adler yesterday, today is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Cuyahoga River fire in Cleveland. The fire continues to be a prominent and compelling...
