Sequence of events
This chart records the dates and times surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It shows when the U.S. aircraft departed from the U.S.S. Ticonderoga and the...
The 2nd squad
In this eyewitness statement, seven members of Staff Sergeant Clifford Sims’s squad describe how he saved their lives by sacrificing his own. Sims threw himself...
The flying ambulance
A Fairchild Aviation C-123 Provider approaches the airfield at Bien Hoa Air Force Base in Vietnam in 1966. This troop and cargo transport could also be used to...
The General concurs
U.S. Air Force General George S. Brown, commanding the U.S. 7th Air Force, sent this memorandum to the Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam on October...
"They were magnificent"
Technical Sergeant Morton J. Freedman submitted this statement of his rescue from Kham Duc, Republic of Vietnam. Freedman and the other two members of the Combat...
Torpedo attack!
As this deck log documents, three North Vietnamese boats attacked the U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2, 1964. The Maddox and aircraft...
Torpedo boat, head on
This photograph, taken from the deck of the U.S. destroyer Maddox, shows a North Vietnamese P-4 torpedo boat closing in on the American vessel. Three of these...