the U.S. response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, when he was shot down and captured. Alvarez was the first U.S. fighter pilot shot down over North Vietnam in the war. "I said to myself ...

After his internship, with the Vietnam War in progress, he enlisted in the US Navy, where, as Lieutenant Commander, he became the Chief Medical Officer of a destroyer squadron in the Tonkin Gulf ...

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - US Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson permission to wage war on North Vietnam. The first major contingent of US Marines arrived in 1965. For the next ten years the ...

where he served on five different World War II-era carriers. He spent the most time on the USS Ticonderoga, which took him to the Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam, in 1972. The Navy Seal plan didn’t shake out.

featuring maps detailing trench warfare and aerial reconnaissance. Much of the chapter centers on the period from 1945 to the present day, including special sections on the Vietnam War and the Gulf ...

That was his home station for the next four years, where he served on five different World War II-era carriers. He spent the most time on the USS Ticonderoga, which took him to the Tonkin Gulf, ...

MYRTLE BEACH – Myrtle Beach plans to build a Vietnam War memorial and city officials want the public's help in designing it.

The bronze figure at the Berks County Vietnam War Veterans Memorial sits head bowed on granite steps. Behind the solitary soldier in Reading’s City Park, a matching stone monolith bears the 65 names ...

New and restored gravesites of four young servicemen who died during the Vietnam War were unveiled at a Newark cemetery ...