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Questions about the Gulf of Tonkin incidents have persisted for more than 40 years. But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the ...
Tonkin: Setting the Record Straight. The Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964 remains as divisive a topic as the Vietnam War itself. But according to the author, despite the current conventional wisdom, the second attack did occur.
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 ...
17 wrz 2024 · Gulf of Tonkin incident, complex naval event in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, that occurred from August 2 to August 4, 1964, during the Vietnam War. It was described to the U.S. Congress on August 5, 1964, as two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the U.S. destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy .
The lively public debate about them in the United States may have failed to result in the emergence of a single, generally accepted account of what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on 2 and 4 August 1964, but it has shown that the incidents were far more complex than appeared at the time.
4 sie 2014 · By International Herald Tribune. WASHINGTON — North Vietnamese PT boats tonight [Aug. 4] made a ‘‘deliberate attack’’ on the U.S. destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin and...
