File:North Vietnamese P-4 under fire from USS Maddox (2 August 1964).jpg

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English: Photograph taken from the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) during her engagement with three North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, 2 August 1964. The view shows one of the boats racing by, with what appears to be smoke from Maddox' shells in its wake.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo USN 711524 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
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  • 2006-11-13 14:59 RM Gillespie 744×582× (194480 bytes) From Joel D. Meyerson, ''Images of a Lengthy War''. Washington DC: US Army Center of Military History, 1986.

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