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Revised Patrol Restrictions

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

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1964

Ulysses Sharp2 August 1964

Pacific Command · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Sharp received authority to continue the Tonkin patrol under revised restrictions intended to keep the destroyers farther from the North Vietnamese mainland and separate them from covert raids.

Names involved

Ulysses Sharp

Provenance

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