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Dark Signals - A Navy Radio Operator in the Tonkin Gulf and South China Sea, 1964-1965 (Paperback)
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Dark Signals - A Navy Radio Operator in the Tonkin Gulf and South China Sea, 1964-1965 (Paperback)
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In August, 1964, a young U.S. Navy radio operator found himself in
waters he had never heard of, participating in the expansion of a
war in a nation he didn't know existed: Vietnam. What he learned
from actions he witnessed and the classified messages he handled
over the next 10 months left him shaken, disillusioned, and full of
questions about America's responses to events in the Tonkin Gulf
and South China Sea, including the rush to bomb North Vietnam and
the Johnson Administration's decisions to vastly expand the
presence of U.S. ground, air, and naval forces in Southeast Asia.
Some within the U.S. 7th Fleet knew almost from the outset that the
still-controversial "second attack" which triggered the 1964 Tonkin
Gulf Resolution did not involve North Vietnamese PT boats firing on
U.S. Navy destroyers in pitch-dark seas. What it did involve,
others have since shown, was something simpler and much stranger.
This is one sailor's memories of being present at the ragged
beginnings of a long conflict that ultimately failed and cost
58,000 American lives.
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