Re-enactment, some time after the actual event, of actions taken in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 2nd through 5th, 1964, aboard the USS Turner Joy (DD-951). Two crew members, wearing headsets,monitor radar screen and report their obervations on intercom. At another location, two officers and a sailor monitor another radar screen and converse on the interphone.
Ordinance being moved to the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier, USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during re-enactment of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, that occurred 2-5 August, 1964. A 1000 pound bomb arrives at the flight deck on an elevator. T. L. Billingsly pulls the bomb from the bomb elevator on a small bomb cart. J. E. Danial unloads rockets from the elevator on a trailer. 250 pound fragmentation bombs come up on the elevator, a handle is attached to a small cart. Three of the bombs are pulled off. A 1000 pound bomb comes up the elevator to the flight deck level. R. A. Eggan pulls the bomb from the elevator onto the flight deck.
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 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.
Reconstruction of events from Gulf of Tonkin Incident that occurred August 2nd through 5th, 1964. USS Maddox underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A radar operator on a scope. The man makes markings on the radar scope and passes the information over a phone. A crewman mans the radar scope. Two men work at a chart table. Both men are wearing earphones. A man on the radar scope, passing word over his phones. The Chief Quartermaster looks out over an aviation chart. He traces the route of the ship through the Gulf of Tonkin. The chart shows a route to Maddox through the Gulf of Tonkin. The hand of the Chief Quartermaster points to positions on various days.
Reconstruction of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. A U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. The ship's doctor and a hospital corpsman simulate giving aid and saline solution to an engine man who simulates collapse from heat during Gulf of Tonkin incident. The engine man on a stretcher. A respirator is held up to the man's mouth. Saline solution bottle hanging nearby. The engine man is wiped down with alcohol by the doctor. The hospital corpsman holds the respirator over the man's mouth.
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