The WWII Sumner class destroyer USS Maddox was attacked by the North Viet Navy 135th TB squadron on 02 August 1964 and was involved in the second "incident" accompanied by the destroyer USS Turner Joy on 04 August 1964. This second "incident" may not have involved actual naval units belonging to North Vietnam.
The destroyer USS Higbee was bombed by a NVAF MiG17 in 1972, her aft 5" mount was destroyed.
The cruiser USS Oklahoma City had a near miss from the same air attack.
Tonkin Gulf ships were attacked ( this was LBJ who made it up).
The passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution occurred due to sea battles in the Tonkin Gulf between the US Navy and the North Vietnam Navy.
The buildup of US troops in South Vietnam was accelerated after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which North Vietnamese gunboats attacked ships of the US Seventh Fleet off the coast of North Vietnam.
USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy .
He made the dramatic announcement that on August 2 the USS Maddox, a navy destroyer, had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the North Vietnamese coast.The president claimed that the attack on the USS Maddoxwas unprovoked. In fact, the Maddox had been on a spying mission and had fired first.
Not a bay; a gulf...the Gulf of Tonkin.
Tonkin Gulf ships were attacked ( this was LBJ who made it up).
The Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam.
Location off the coast of communism North Vietnam where US ships were attacked and lightly damaged by North Vietnamese ships
The passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution occurred due to sea battles in the Tonkin Gulf between the US Navy and the North Vietnam Navy.
Destroyer, USS Maddox.
The Gulf of Tonkin.
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin.
The gulf of tonkin resolution was passed by President Johnson, in 1964, in responce to the attacks launched by the north vietnamese, against the American ships in the gulf of tonkin.
The buildup of US troops in South Vietnam was accelerated after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which North Vietnamese gunboats attacked ships of the US Seventh Fleet off the coast of North Vietnam.
A North Vietnamese military patrol supposedly attacked a US destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.Rebecca