On August 2, 1964, USS Maddox was conducting an intelligence-gathering mission in the volatile waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

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. One of the most consequential ...

On North Vietnam's P-4 torpedo boats, the 14.5 mm guns' tracers went nearly 1,400 meters (1,540 yards), a distance that gave the USS Maddox time to escape in 1964 when crews launched the torpedoes ...

Former shipmates of the USS Maddox are invited to a reunion Sept. 3-7 in Oklahoma City. The event is for those who served on the DD-168, DD-622 or DD-731.For more information, contact Cliff Gillespie ...

Henry Hector Boubel, a Laredo native and WWII veteran, witnessed Japan's surrender, survived pivotal battles, and left a ...

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that committed the United States to fighting and then losing the Vietnam War. On Aug. 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox was ...

Sixty years ago this week, an incident off the coast of North Vietnam set the U.S. on a path toward a costly and, ultimately, unsuccessful war. What some were calling the Second Indochina War is ...

Bob Brown was a radarman aboard the USS Constellation in the Tonkin Gulf on Aug. 4, 1964, when the U.S. reported that two of its destroyers had been attacked by the North Vietnamese, giving Congress ...

In August 1964, the US entered the Vietnam War, thanks to the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson broad powers to use the US military to defend any ...