This video reconstructs the very real August 2nd attack on the USS Maddox using North Vietnamese records, later admissions ...

This video moves from the signing of the Civil Rights Act and the turmoil of Freedom Summer to escalating OPPLAN 34A raids, ...

Former shipmates of the USS Maddox are invited to a reunion Sept. 3-7 in Oklahoma City. The event is for those who served on the DD-168, DD-622 or DD-731.For more information, contact Cliff Gillespie ...

Sixty years ago this week, an incident off the coast of North Vietnam set the U.S. on a path toward a costly and, ultimately, unsuccessful war. What some were calling the Second Indochina War is ...

History may or may not repeat and may or may not even rhyme. But certain events can only be ignored or dismissed with great peril. Sixty years ago this month, the Congress recklessly and foolishly ...

The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War—changing the United States forever.

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Is August the bleakest of months? One century ago this August, World War I was about to set Europe and a good part of the world aflame. Seventy-nine years ago, two nuclear bombs ...

1846 - Sailors and Marines from USS Congress capture Santa Barbara. 1858 - First trans-Atlantic cable completed by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon. 1944 - 5th Fleet carrier task forces begin ...

1846 - Sailors and Marines from USS Congress capture Santa Barbara 1858 - First trans-Atlantic cable completed by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon 1944 - Fifth Fleet carrier task forces begin ...