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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USN 711523

Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 1964


Photograph taken from USS Maddox (DD-731) during her engagement with three North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, 2 August 1964. The view shows shells fired by Maddox splashing astern of one of the boats. Smoke at the left is perhaps from other shells and/or from another boat.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-711523.

 

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6 March 2002