Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Turner Joy (DD- 951) at sea. A signalman sends a message through a signal light aboard the destroyer.. He sends up a hoist of signal flags from a flag bag.
Reconstruction of activities that took place aboard USS Ticonderoga in the Gulf of Tonkin. A gun director training. A radar dish situated on the top of the gun director. USS Ticonderoga in the sea. Smoke flares in water. A helicopter recovers Lieutenant Junior Grade (jg) Albert J. Showers, VA-56 pilot of A-4A. A U.S. Navy SH-3A helicopter flies over the water and lowers a sling to Lt. jg Showers in water. Lt. jg Showers in a one man raft. The SH-3A hovers and then hoists Lt. jg Showers out of water. A white float, part of a pod from the A-4A aircraft porpoise in water. Roger D. McKeithan scans the horizon with his binocular. L. C. Alexander looks through binocular and talks over his phones then again looks through the binoculars. Lt. jg P.D. Corsett, training gun director, holds the control handles.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Aircraft takes off from flight deck of the carrier . Crew members on deck. Four aircraft in formation.
Reconstruction of activities that took place aboard Destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Commander Herbert L. Ogier and Captain J. J. Herrick stand on the bridge. They look out through binoculars. Captain Herrick points out to the sea. Commander Herbert L. Ogier stands nearby. A destroyer in the background. Captain Herrick and Commander Ogier on the bridge.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 2-5, 1964. Captain of the USS Turner Joy (DD-951), Commander Robert C. BARNHART, Jr., USN, speaks to crew over the ship's public address system. He wears helmet with "CO" painted on it, and a life vest. Crew members, including two officers, lean over a plotting board depicting relative positions of vessels in the vicinity. They discuss the matter while one, wearing a headset, annotates the plot with information.
USS Ticonderoga in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior aircraft lands on the flight deck of the carrier ship. A U.S. Navy E-1B Tracer aircraft lands and taxis forward to right. A U.S. Navy F-8E Crusader aircraft lands on the deck. A U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk aircraft lands and taxis forward. The A-4E aircraft takes wave off over the deck of the ship. A U.S. F-8E aircraft lands on the deck. The A-4E lands on the flight deck of the carrier ship.
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