Lyndon Baines Johnson5 August 1964
Orders retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnamese targets after reports of attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Orders retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnamese targets after reports of attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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