Refine Your Search

Gulf of Tonkin 1966 stock footage and images

- Showing 19 to 24 of 50698 results
Various U.S. Navy aircraft take off from USS Coral Sea while underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War.

USS Coral Sea underway in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. USS Coral Sea, an aircraft carrier underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. USS Coral Sea underway in a port turn. Smoke comes out of the stack of the aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy KA-3B aircraft being launched from the deck of the aircraft carrier. Another KA-3B aircraft being launched from the aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy A-4E aircraft taxis and takes off from the catapult. U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft taxis and takes off from the carrier.

Date: 1967, January 15
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059968
U.S. Navy aircraft takes off for attacking Vietnamese torpedo boats and sailors fire from USS Maddox in the Pacific Ocean.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident during the Vietnam War. A flag of U.S. Navy. U.S. Navy soldiers parade. Aircraft being parked on the deck of aircraft carrier. Animated map shows the route of U.S. Destroyers (DD) on Gulf of Tonkin. A destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) underway in the Pacific. General Quarter on the DD sounds. The U.S. Navy men run and take their positions on the ship. The ship crewmen take their position on the deck guns. A sailor looks through a binocular. Two officers on a bridge of USS Maddox. One of them looks through the binocular. A tower on the ship. A U.S. Navy sailor loads shell and fires with a gun. Several views of the sailor loading shells and firing. U.S. Commander Robert Warhart describes what he and his pilots did during the attack against Vietnamese torpedo boats. USS Turner Joy (DD-951) underway in the pacific. The U.S. sailors wearing headphones at controls. North Vietnamese patrol boats strike against the U.S. destroyers. The White House in Washington DC. The crew members pull the bombs on a small elevator. They load the bombs in the aircraft. The ship crew members work under the wings of the U.S. Navy aircraft. The pilots seated in a room before taking off. An officer with the help of a wall map briefs pilots about the attack. A pilot gets into a cockpit. Another one stands on a ladder. The pilot closes the canopy. A signal officer gives signal. The aircraft taxi one after the other and take off for the attack on Vietnamese patrol boats. USS Turner Joy and USS Maddox underway in the Pacific.

Date: 1964, August 2
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069696
Dr W Kintner with Senator Fulbright during a debate on the 'Role of Congress' in Washington DC.

Question Answer period of the debate on 'Role of Congress in Foreign Policies' among John C Stennis, Chairman, Armed Service Committee and William J Fulbright, Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee in Washington DC, organized by American Enterprise Institute. Moderator of debate Peter Lasigor concludes the Question Answer period. He tells that Dr William Kintner asked Senator Fulbright about the controversy of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Senator Fulbright replied that President has the right to act without consultation whenever there is an emergency or threat to the nation's security but the issue about Gulf of Tonkin incident was not an urgent issue. He said that he was only the agent of situation and the decision of war was imposed over them.

Date: 1971
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026766
John C Stennis speaks during Question Answer period of a debate on the 'Role of Congress' in Washington DC.

Question Answer period of the debate on the 'Role of Congress in Foreign Policies' among John C Stennis, Chairman, Armed Service Committee and William J Fulbright Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee in United States organized by American Enterprise Institute. Stennis reacts on the statement of Senator Fulbright that on several issue majority of senators do not vote but on the issue related to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in the Vietnam War). It (resolution) was presented to the committee and Senators had voted for it. He regarded it as the perfect illustration of working in a democratic country.

Date: 1971
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026767
President Johnson addresses the public on United States actions against North Vietnam

During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the United States public during the “Radio and Television Report to the American People Following Renewed Aggression in the Gulf of Tonkin” from the Fish Room at the White House in August 4, 1964. "Renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action in reply,” says President Johnson. The USS Constellation (CV-64) aircraft carrier sailing. Pilots walk away from Douglas EKA-3B Skywarrior fighter jets in the USS Constellation. Aircrafts fire missiles, destroying facilities in North Vietnam. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses the public to explain the direct attack against North Vietnam. “We wish to emphasize we seek no wider war. Our response will depend upon the action of the aggressors, in this case the North Vietnamese. The key to the situation remains the cessation of infiltration from the North into the South,” says Secretary McNamara.

Date: 1964, August
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080609
F-4B aircraft being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) during Vietnam War

U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.

Date: 1966
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034591