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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
30-Jul-1964       Vietnam
World Claxon      
Military    
Vietnam War    
     
     
South Vietnamese commandos attack two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S. destroyer Maddox, an electronic spy ship, is 123 miles south with orders to electronically simulate an air attack to draw Vietnamese ships away.
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