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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.

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Communist aggression commencing in 1955; Communist aggression in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.

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