USN Destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy. Maddox was re-cycled (scrapped); Turner Joy is preserved as a memorial/museum in the state of Washington.
Attacking Patrol torpedo Boats may have been North Vietnamese Navy P4's exported from Red China.
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.
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin.
The Gulf of Tonkin.
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
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.