Johnson first deployed American troops on Vietnamese soil in 1965, with an oft-forgotten clash called the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. During the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Gulf of Tonkin incident allowed the US to increase air attacks on North Vietnam However, it is now likely the second attack by the North Vietnamese ...

U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance said today he hoped the military crisis over the Tonkin Gulf is over but ...

The first big lie, in 1964, was known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident that was used to justify military action and catapult the United States into the Vietnam (American) war that lasted for eight years ...

Six months later, Americans are told that two U.S. spy ships have been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. (Later investigations prove at least one of the attacks never happened.) Justified by the ...

This incident pointed out overworked crews and ... The USS Oriskany was sent to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin for its ...

Stationed in Japan for three years of duty, Donahue would fly 263 combat missions in the Gulf of Tonkin. “I served as a naval flight officer sitting in the right front seat,” he said ...

In August 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked US vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US politicians in Congress were furious. They passed a resolution that allowed US forces to ‘take all ...

However in Washington the attack was presented as a fact and the incident gave the USA the ... was not passed on to the US Congress. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - US Congress gave President Lyndon ...

U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance said today he hoped the military crisis over the Tonkin Gulf is over but ...