Artifact
USS Maddox
U.S. Navy destroyer (DD-731) on a Desoto signals-intelligence patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964.
Connections 3
deployed by
involved in
- Gulf of Tonkin incidents destroyer that reported the attacks Primary record 2
located in
- Gulf of Tonkin Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- Jul–Aug 1964 U.S. Navy deployed USS Maddox
Proof 2 sources
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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
In mid-July 1964, the JCS approved another Desoto mission, which would concentrate on collecting intelligence on North Vietnam’s coastal defense posture.
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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
Twenty-seven minutes later, the Maddox reported that it was being attacked by three North Vietnamese patrol craft and had opened fire.
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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