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Although communist infiltration into South Vietnam was the direct cause of the war it was a naval engagement in the Tonkin Gulf between the North Vietnamese Navy's 135th Torpedo Boat Squadron and the destroyer, later destroyers, USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy in 1964 that directly caused the war between the US and North Vietnam. More commonly known as the Tonkin Gulf Incident.

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