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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident: How It Changed the Vietnam War

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a series of confrontations involving U.S. and North Vietnamese forces in August 1964 that dramatically escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. After the USS Maddox was attacked

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Topics: Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam, Viet Cong, Gulf of Tonkin, USS Maddox, Da Nang, Operation OPLAN 34-A, DeSoto patrols, Admiral Ulysses Grant Sharp Jr., Captain John J. Herrick, Commander James Stockdale, Lieutenant Everett Alvarez Jr, Hoa Lo "Hilton" Prison

79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Captain Raymond Harvey

During the Saverne Gap battle it was the entire 79th Infantry Division which had been used, all of the elements without any exceptions. Indeed, while the 314th Infantry Regiment was fighting for villages of Hameau

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Topics: WWII 79th Infantry Division, Medal of Honor recipient, Medal of Honor, France, Alsace