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Photo #: NH 96351

Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 1964


Track chart of the action involving USS Maddox (DD-731) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951) on the night of 4 August 1964, during the second part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Many of the observations reflected in this chart were later determined to be inaccurate.
Chart prepared for "The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict", Volume II, page 430.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 6 March 2002
Cautionary note added to caption 13 December 2002