U.S. rushes jets to bolster Vietnam SAIGON, South Viet-Nam ... annual World Assembly of Youth meeting. U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy ...

a controversial confrontation in the Gulf of Tonkin between the United States and North Vietnam forces set the stage for what eventually became US involvement in the Vietnam War. US divisive ...

U.S. rushes jets to bolster Vietnam SAIGON, South Viet-Nam ... annual World Assembly of Youth meeting. U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy ...

Justified by the attacks, congress rapidly approves the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, giving the President power to wage all-out war against North Vietnam without a formal declaration of war.

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest ... 1964 when North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US Congress then passed, with only two dissenting ...

While the war established Vietnam as a potent military power in Southeast Asia, the massive scale of the armed conflict ...

The Vietnam War is perhaps the most controversial conflict in U.S. military history. The U.S. initially entered to help South ...

The Gulf of Tonkin incident or the USS Maddox incident is the event responsible for America’s entry into the Vietnam war. Cillian Murphy ‘returns’ in first 28 Years Later trailer as creepy ...

before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two. After World ... was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin, just off the coast of North Vietnam, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats.

The front-page newspaper photograph was striking on the morning of April 6, 1967 — a dramatic image showing the U.S.S. Canberra firing at Communist targets from the warship’s position in the Gulf of ...