On August 2 and 4, 1964, the US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy (currently on display in Bremerton), reported coming under attack in teh Gulf of Tonkin, sparking America's entry into what?
USS Turner Joy USS Turner Joy USS "Turner Joy" (DD-951) was one of 18 s of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956). Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific. She participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington. "Turner Joy" was built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle and commissioned at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. Her keel was laid on
USS Turner Joy Gulf again to attack two more US destroyers, only to be promptly sunk by US jets from the aircraft carriers USS "Constellation" and USS "Hancock". Nineteen PRVN Sailors were taken as Prisoner of War from those sunk torpedo boats, and they made it clear that no PRVN (North Vietnamese) Navy torpedo boats had been sunk in the year 1964. It could well have been that bad weather and ""the Tonkin Ghosts"" (freakish radar conditions) for which the Gulf of Tonkin is famous, caused radar echoes to appear on "Turner Joy"'s screen and prompted her captain and crew to take defensive