Photo #: NH 97897
Gulf of Tonkin Incident, August 1964
Lieutenant Commander Dempster M. Jackson, USN, Executive officer
of USS Maddox (DD-731), kneels next to the hole made by
the machine gun bullet that hit his ship's Mk.56 director pedestal
during the engagement between Maddox and three North Vietnamese
motor torpedo boats on 2 August 1964. The bullet is lodged in
the hole.
Taken by a USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) photographer on 10
August 1964.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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