Lyndon Johnson4 August 1964
Johnson approved a limited retaliatory operation against North Vietnamese patrol-boat bases and petroleum facilities after receiving reports of a second attack in the Gulf.
United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Johnson approved a limited retaliatory operation against North Vietnamese patrol-boat bases and petroleum facilities after receiving reports of a second attack in the Gulf.
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