Person
James Stockdale
U.S. Navy pilot who flew over the destroyers on the night of 4 August 1964.
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- Gulf of Tonkin incidents pilot overhead; saw no boats Primary record 1
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Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964 (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 2000/Spring 2001; approved for release 3 Nov 2005), National Security Agency, 2001.
Primary record
James Stockdale, then a navy pilot at the scene, who had “the best seat in the house from which to detect boats,” saw nothing.
“No boats,” he would later write, “no boat wakes, no ricochets off boats, no boat impacts, no torpedo wakes - nothing but black sea and American firepower.”
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