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Tonkin Gulf

On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox was attacked by torpedoes in international waters by North Vietnamese patrol boats miles away from the North Vietnamese coast. The USS Maddox evaded a torpedo attack and chased the ships away. Two days later, on August 4th, there were reports of another attack by the North Vietnamese but the reports were wrong. The responses to these attacks were bombing raids in North Vietnam. Other bombing raids went under the codes names of Operation Pierce Arrow, followed by Operation Flaming Dart, Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Linebacker, and Operation Linebacker II. The Tonkin Gulf incident led President Johnson to ask Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that gave him the authority to help South Vietnam without a declaration of war and led to the escalation of US troops in Vietnam.

Pleiku

Pleiku is a town in central Vietnam in the central highland region. It is the capital of the Gia Lai Province. It was......

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