The destroyer Maddox was alone when she engaged 3 North Viet Navy torpedo boats from their 135th Torpedo Boat squadron on 02 August 1964.
Maddox was with the destroyer USS Turner Joy on 04 August 1964 in the Gulf when they engaged "Tonkin Ghosts" (radar ghosts in the Tonkin Gulf).
USS America (CVA-66) was deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin during the ship's WestPac cruise in 1967 - 1968.
The Maddox (DD731) was an Allen Sumner class WWII USN destroyer that engaged North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats in the Tonkin Gulf on 02 August 1964. A two part "Tonkin Gulf Incident."
Gulf of Tonkin (not "Bay"), the USS Maddox, a WWII Sumner class destroyer. Second incident involved the same warship plus a newer 1950s built Sherman class destroyer named the USS Turner Joy.
Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution after North Vietnam forces attacked two United States destroyers (the Maddox and the C. Turner Joy).
If by worse you mean formal US involvement in Vietnam, and largely unfettered control of military actions in Vietnam by President Lyndon Johnson, then yes. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Public Law 88-408, passed 7 August 1964, was in response to the two attacks against US Navy vessels (the USS Maddox on August 2 and the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on August 4) in the Tonkin Gulf. The Tonkin Gulf issue simply initiated open war between North Vietnam and the US. Prior to the Gulf incident there was no war between Hanoi and Washington, only a guerrilla war against the Viet Cong in RVN (Republic of South Vietnam)...not a war against North Vietnam itself.
Destroyer, USS Maddox.
USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy .
1964 (not 1954). Naval engagements between the North Viet Navy's 135th Torpedo Boat Squadron and the US Navy's destroyer USS Maddox (later Maddox and USS Turner Joy) in the Tonkin Gulf.
He made the dramatic announcement that on August 2 the USS Maddox, a navy destroyer, had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the North Vietnamese coast.The president claimed that the attack on the USS Maddoxwas unprovoked. In fact, the Maddox had been on a spying mission and had fired first.
She actually fired her 5-inch guns first, in the Tonkin Gulf.
USS America (CVA-66) was deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin during the ship's WestPac cruise in 1967 - 1968.
The Maddox (DD731) was an Allen Sumner class WWII USN destroyer that engaged North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats in the Tonkin Gulf on 02 August 1964. A two part "Tonkin Gulf Incident."
Gulf of Tonkin (not "Bay"), the USS Maddox, a WWII Sumner class destroyer. Second incident involved the same warship plus a newer 1950s built Sherman class destroyer named the USS Turner Joy.
1. 02 August 1964, three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron engaged the destroyer USS Maddox in a sea battle in the Tonkin Gulf. 2. 04 August 1964, alleged North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats engaged the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy in a sea battle in the Tonkin Gulf. Determined later to be, possibly, "Tonkin Ghosts" (false radar images).
1. 02 August 1964, three torpedo boats from the North Vietnamese Navy engaged the destroyer USS Maddox in the Tonkin Gulf. 2. 04 August 1964, alleged torpedo boats engaged the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy in the Gulf. Later determined to be "Tonkin Ghosts" (false radar images).
Vietnam War; 1964 involving USN destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy. Maddox was re-cycled (scrapped); Turner Joy is preserved in Washington State as a memorial museum.
The USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy were allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam in 1964. These incidents, known as the Gulf of Tonkin incidents, were cited as a justification for the escalation of US involvement in the Vietnam War. However, subsequent investigations have revealed that the second attack on the USS Turner Joy may have been based on false radar readings and did not actually occur.