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Coordinates: 19°42′N 106°46′E. The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
17 wrz 2024 · The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a complex naval event in the Gulf of Tonkin that occurred from August 2 to August 4, 1964, during the Vietnam War. It was subsequently described to the U.S. Congress as two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the U.S. destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy, and it led to the Gulf of Tonkin ...
25 sie 2015 · Summary of the Tonkin Gulf Crisis of August 1964. A clash between naval forces of the United States and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) in August 1964 marked a significant...
On 5 August, planes from two carriers destroyed the fuel storage site at Vinh and sank or damaged 33 vessels of the North Vietnamese navy. Two days later, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the White House wide latitude to use military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war.
14 sie 2024 · This chapter examines the United States’ air strikes against torpedo boat bases in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in August 1964 in response to two claimed armed attacks against its naval units in the Gulf of Tonkin earlier that month.
At 1530, some 30 miles from shore, the MADDOX altered her course to the southeast, heading for the mouth of the Tonkin Gulf, and increased her speed to 25 knots, attempting to avoid the three ORV torpedo boats reflected on radar as closing at about SO knots, within 20 miles of the DESOTO ship. At that time the.
The fog of crisis: the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incidents ADAM ROBERTS The naval incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin in the first days of August 1 964 appear simple and relatively insignificant. They consisted of two en-counters in the space of three days between some North Vietnamese torpedo boats and two U.S. destroyers. The only hit actually inflicted on
