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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 ...
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. It consisted of a confrontation on August 2, 1964, when United States forces were carrying out covert amphibious operations close to North Vietnamese territorial ...
25 sie 2015 · In early August of 1964, destroyer USS Maddox (DD 731), under the operational control of Captain John J. Herrick, USN, steamed along the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin gathering...
Gulf of Tonkin Incidents (1964).In 1964, under OPLAN (Operations Plan) 34A, the United States was sending small vessels with Vietnamese crews into the Gulf of Tonkin on convert raids against the North Vietnamese coast.
On 7th August, 1964, the US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This gave President Johnson permission to send troops to Vietnam and initiate further attacks on North Vietnam, without gaining permission from Congress or formally declaring war.
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
The Vietnam War – The Gulf of Tonkin BLUF: On 2 August 1964, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were patrolling near an intelligence operation by the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam.
