MercoPress10 年
Fifty years since the Gulf of Tonkin incident which triggered the Vietnam war
US divisive escalation in Vietnam ... an American naval ship, the destroyer USS Maddox, was cruising in the Gulf of Tonkin on a DESOTO mission when it was unexpectedly faced against three Soviet ...
The American Conservative17 年
Persian Gulf of Tonkin Incident
“Some of us remember 1970 and Cambodia ... Turner Joy, to join the Maddox and sail to the Gulf of Tonkin. On the night of Aug. 4, both ships reported that they were coming under attack again ...