In the aftermath of the naval battle of Aug. 2, President Johnson ordered a second U.S. destroyer, the USS C. Turner Joy, to join the Maddox and sail to the Gulf of Tonkin. On the night of Aug. 4 ...

DESOTO surveillance was resumed by midday on August 3, augmenting the mission by adding another U.S. ship, the USS C. Turner Joy, to patrol the Gulf of Tonkin. However, late in the evening on ...

Despite this, the USS Constellation began sea trials, and by 1962, she was sent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, where she entered ...

she relieved USS Constellation and sailed for the Philippines on the 24th. After arriving at Subic Bay on 29 November, she made final preparations for combat operations in the Tonkin Gulf.

Fifty years ago, a controversial confrontation in the Gulf of Tonkin between the United States and North Vietnam forces set the stage for what eventually became US involvement in the Vietnam War.