Robert McNamara5 August 1964
McNamara announced that carrier aircraft had flown dozens of strike sorties against North Vietnamese naval bases and petroleum storage facilities in retaliation for the reported Tonkin attacks.
United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
McNamara announced that carrier aircraft had flown dozens of strike sorties against North Vietnamese naval bases and petroleum storage facilities in retaliation for the reported Tonkin attacks.
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