Tucker's Last Stand
“The following forty-eight hours were hectic, mad; to this day, inscrutable.
Sundown at the Gulf of Tonkin, on August 2, is at 7:40 P.M., and in 1964 brought in a moonless night. It soon seemed that everyone in the whole world was trying to find out exactly what happened on that mysterious night in the Gulf of Tonkin. The military to begin with, of course. And then congressmen, in particular the membership of the foreign affairs committees, which had been especially pushed for action, now. And o...f course the press. They bore down in Saigon, in Guam, in Honolulu, and in Washington, trying to find out: What, exactly, happened?
It was hard, in the flurry, to get the story line straight.
The Navy acknowledged that after the Sunday afternoon attack of August 2 by the three North Vietnamese patrol boats, Admiral Moorer, the Pacific Fleet Commander, had ordered a fresh patrol: two destroyers, the C. Turner Joy joining the Maddox. And the Navy acknowledged that their orders were for the destroyers to steam in toward NV shore during the day, and to retire to sea at night.MoreLess
Sundown at the Gulf of Tonkin, on August 2, is at 7:40 P.M., and in 1964 brought in a moonless night. It soon seemed that everyone in the whole world was trying to find out exactly what happened on that mysterious night in the Gulf of Tonkin. The military to begin with, of course. And then congressmen, in particular the membership of the foreign affairs committees, which had been especially pushed for action, now. And o...f course the press. They bore down in Saigon, in Guam, in Honolulu, and in Washington, trying to find out: What, exactly, happened?
It was hard, in the flurry, to get the story line straight.
The Navy acknowledged that after the Sunday afternoon attack of August 2 by the three North Vietnamese patrol boats, Admiral Moorer, the Pacific Fleet Commander, had ordered a fresh patrol: two destroyers, the C. Turner Joy joining the Maddox. And the Navy acknowledged that their orders were for the destroyers to steam in toward NV shore during the day, and to retire to sea at night.MoreLess
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