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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 95611

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 all three of the boats speeding towards the Maddox.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 

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6 March 2002