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 ...

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 ...

On 2nd August 1964, North Vietnamese boats attacked a US Navy destroyer, the USS Maddox, patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin. Another attack on the Maddox was reported to have taken place on 4th August.