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Vietnam: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese motor torpedo boat attacking USS Maddox, 2 August 1964 . US Navy photograph 711524. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate incidents, one disputed, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox was engaged by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron. A sea battle resulted, in which the Maddox expended over 280 3 and 5 shells, and which involved the strafing from four USN F-8 Crusader jet fighter bombers. One US aircraft was damaged, one 14.5mm round hit the destroyer, 3 North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and 4 Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations. The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment.<br ><br > The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarde xSupplier:xCPAxMediaxCo.xLtd.x Copyright: xx

Cabinet Room of the White House just recently when the President Lyndon B Johnson met his top defence advisors on the Vietnam Situation. Around the table are left to right: Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze, Admiral David L McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations General John McConnell, chief of Staff Air Force Eugene Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force (outgoing) Harold Brown, Secretary of the Air Force Designate; Presidential Assistant Jack Valenti, General Wallace M Greene Commandant Marine Corps, General Harold K Johnson Army Chief of Staff, Stanley Resor Secretary of the Army, President Johnson, Robert McNamara Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defence Cyrus Vance, General Earle G Wheeler Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and McGeorge Bundy Presudential Advisor 27th July 1965 UnitedArchives00123237