The 1967 fire on the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier was one of the most devastating naval disasters in U.S. history. It ...

an American naval ship, the destroyer USS Maddox, was cruising in the Gulf of Tonkin on a DESOTO mission when it was unexpectedly faced against three Soviet-built Northern Vietnamese torpedo boats.

The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War—changing the United States forever.

South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl, who’d never seen the ocean before joining the Navy in the midst of ... dubious tale of falling off a ship in the Tonkin Gulf,” Leepson writes.

Perhaps the Turner Joy fared better in this respect than the USS Maddox, its sister ship in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which was transferred to the Republic of China navy and renamed ROCS Po ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 1964 (UPI) - President Johnson today issued shoot-to-kill orders to the Navy ... Gulf of Tonkin to join the Maddox and that he was providing combat air cover for the ships.

China began live-fire drills this week in the Gulf of Tonkin, just days after Vietnam ... Army takes part in an exercise with replenishment ship the Taihu in January 2025. A guided-missile ...

BANGKOK--Chinese authorities said they began live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday ... Most recently, a Chinese navy helicopter flew within 10 feet (3 meters) of a Philippine ...