Reconstruction of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, August 2-5,1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. An aircraft parked on the flight deck of the ship. Ordnance men work on the aircraft. They load bombs in the wings section. The airplane taxis and takes off from the flight deck. Superstructure of the ship.
Re-enactment of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A catapult officer gives an aircraft take off signal aboard the ship. U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk and F-8E Crusader aircraft taxi up to a catapult. The RF-8A aircraft takes off from the port catapult. The A-4E aircraft takes off. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior aircraft on the catapult. An A-1H Skyraider taxis on the flight deck. USS Maddox underway. Number '731' written on the port bow of the ship. USS Maddox makes a sharp starboard turn.
Events of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964, re-enacted at later date. A U.S. aircraft carrier underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk being recovered aboard the ship. The aircraft makes an arrested landing and is being recovered. A U.S. Navy F-8E Crusader aircraft being recovered. A U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader aircraft touches down for a landing. The F-8E aircraft touches down for an arrested landing.
Re-enactment of events that took place during 2-5 August, 1964, in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. A U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A sailor loads shells into a 3 inch gun. The gun commences rapid fire, stops and commences firing again. A pointer raises and lowers the twin three inch guns. Two crew members at a gun mount as the gun points. The gun mount rotates and stops. The gun mount manned by the gun crew.
Flight deck gas crewman pulls gas hose on board United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin. He gases one of the aircrafts. Midshipman 1st class Robert S. Schreiber under the guidance of Lollyd E. Webber observes refueling operation. The two of them chat as gas crewman gases a fuel tank under the wing of an aircraft. Schreiber being instructed on gas fuel pumps by Lollyd. Midshipman and Lollyd under A-4E aircraft as it gets refueled.
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.
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