Place
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf off the coast of northern Vietnam and southern China.
Connections 2
involved in
- Gulf of Tonkin incidents Primary record 1
location of
- USS Maddox Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume I, Vietnam, 1964 (documents 255-308: U.S. reaction to events in the Gulf of Tonkin), Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, 1992.
Primary record
At 7:40 a.m. EDT (7:40 p.m., Saigon time), August 4, the destroyer Maddox , on patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin, reported that an attack from unidentified vessels appeared imminent.
At 3:40 a.m. EDT (3:40 p.m. Saigon time), August 2, the destroyer Maddox , on patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin, reported that it was “being approached by high speed craft with apparent intention of torpedo attack.
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