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Demand for Attack Confirmation

United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1964

Ulysses Sharp4 August 1964

Pacific Command · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Sharp pressed the destroyer group for direct supporting evidence that an attack had occurred before Washington completed its decision on military retaliation.

Names involved

Ulysses Sharp

Provenance

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