“Apparently mistaking the Maddox for South Vietnamese, three DRV patrol boats launched a torpedo ... eventually became US involvement in the Vietnam War. US divisive escalation in Vietnam ...

Sitting peacefully amid us in the Pacific Northwest is one of the defining symbols of a trigger-point to America’s involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or ... 1964 when North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US Congress then passed, with only two dissenting ...

In small villages along coastal Vietnam, basket boats were born out of financial necessity but have come to represent independence. In the early morning hours, fishermen begin their day by helping ...