Until the War on Terrorism, Vietnam was the longest conflict in American history. By the end of that war in April 1975, ...

Johnson first deployed American troops on Vietnamese soil in 1965, with an oft-forgotten clash called the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. During the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

Thus the correct historical analogy may not be Nixon’s secret air campaign and incursions into Cambodia, but the Tonkin Gulf incident—the alleged pair of attacks by North Vietnamese naval ...

U.S. patrol in Tonkin Gulf to end soon, Vance says WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1964 (UPI) - Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance said today he hoped the military crisis over the Tonkin Gulf is over but ...

Despite this, the USS Constellation began sea trials, and by 1962, she was sent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, where she entered ...

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam War veterans continue to struggle to make sense of their experiences.

In August 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked US vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US politicians in Congress were furious. They passed a resolution that allowed US forces to ‘take all ...

I was nine years old in 1964 when the Gulf of Tonkin incident spurred the United States to expand combat operations in Vietnam. Little did I know that the war would persist throughout my high ...